Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 61.63
Liaison Leslie North
Submission Date March 1, 2024

STARS v2.2

Western Kentucky University
OP-12: Electronics Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.75 / 1.00 Madeline Petty
Graduate Assistant
Earth, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Total annual expenditures on electronics:
2,424,753.13 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on environmentally or socially preferable electronics:
Expenditure Per Level
EPEAT Gold registered and/or third party certified at the highest achievable level under a multi-attribute sustainability standard 1,529,780.26 US/Canadian $
EPEAT Silver registered and/or third party certified at mid-level under a multi-attribute sustainability standard 150,386.94 US/Canadian $
EPEAT Bronze registered and/or third party certified at minimum level under a multi-attribute sustainability standard 0 US/Canadian $
Labeled under a single-attribute standard 744,585.93 US/Canadian $

Do the figures reported above include leased equipment?:
Yes

A brief description of the time period from which the figures reported above are drawn:

These figures represent purchasing data provided by vendors for academic year 2022-2023.


Website URL where information about the institution’s electronics purchasing is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Inventory Control Coordinator, Rodney Hounshell II provided information for this submission. Pier Group and Volta did not report EPEAT ratings, however all of their products fall into single attribute standards.
Rohn Durbin, WKU's Ricoh printing representative provided data on printing hardware spending.


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