Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 46.13
Liaison Traci Knabenshue
Submission Date March 3, 2021

STARS v2.2

West Virginia University
OP-13: Cleaning and Janitorial Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.15 / 1.00 Robert Beck
Director of Procurement
Procurement, Contracting, and Payment Services
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Cleaning products 

Total annual expenditures on cleaning products:
1,270,651 US/Canadian $

Annual expenditures on certified green cleaning products:
161,217 US/Canadian $

Janitorial paper products 

Total annual expenditures on janitorial paper products:
968,184 US/Canadian $

Annual expenditures on certified green janitorial paper products:
174,181 US/Canadian $

A brief description of the time period on which the figures reported above are based :
Staples for Fiscal Year 2020-- July 1, 2019-June 30, 2020.
Other two janitorial suppliers are for calendar year 2020.

Metric used in scoring

Percentage of expenditures on cleaning and janitorial products that are third party certified to meet recognized sustainability standards:
14.98

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the institution’s cleaning and janitorial purchasing is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
We had FY2020 spend for Staples products, but calendar year 2020 spend for our other two janitorial suppliers. We did get data on product spend for products with green attributes and/or certifications, but out of our total spend for the year we could not break out how much of that was paper and how much janitorial. We chose to use the percent breakdown of paper vs. cleaning from the green category and apply that to the total spend.

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