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

STARS v2.2

Western Kentucky University
OP-14: Office Paper Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.40 / 1.00 Madeline Petty
Graduate Assistant
Earth, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences
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Total annual expenditures on office paper:
35,464.80 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on office paper with the following levels of post-consumer recycled, agricultural residue, and/or FSC certified content::
Expenditure Per Level
10-29 percent 0 US/Canadian $
30-49 percent 35,464.80 US/Canadian $
50-69 percent 0 US/Canadian $
70-89 percent (or FSC Mix label) 0 US/Canadian $
90-100 percent (or FSC Recycled/100% label) 0 US/Canadian $

A brief description of the time period from which the figures reported above are drawn:
FY23

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the institution’s paper purchasing is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Data from this report was generated by WKU's purchasing department, Rodney Hounshell. WKU does one bulk purchase for campus paper needs distributed by the Post Office per year. All paper purchasing as required by WKU Policy contains 30% recycled post-consumer content for a sustainable choice and meets or exceeds FSC standards. Numbers do not include paper used in offset print jobs.

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