Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 81.02
Liaison Sam Lubow
Submission Date June 29, 2016
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STARS v2.1

Stanford University
OP-13: Cleaning and Janitorial Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.82 / 1.00 Moira Hafer
Sustainability Specialist
Office of Sustainability
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Cleaning Products 

Total expenditures on cleaning products:
54,239 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on cleaning products that are Green Seal or UL ECOLOGO certified and/or Safer Choice labeled (or local equivalents for institutions outside the U.S. and Canada):
25,203 US/Canadian $

Janitorial Paper Products 

Total expenditures on janitorial paper products:
685,734.49 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on janitorial paper products that are FSC, Green Seal, and/or UL ECOLOGO certified (or local equivalents for institutions outside the U.S. and Canada):
578,606.19 US/Canadian $

Percentage of expenditures on cleaning and janitorial products that are third party certified to meet recognized sustainability standards:
81.60

A brief description of the time period from which the figures reported above are drawn (i.e. one-year time period or representative sample):
This data includes expenditures from Stanford's primary waste contractor, DTZ (now known as C&W), as well as Stanford Athletics' waste contractor, TQM for calendar year 2015. Note that TQM also purchases USDA Certified Biobased Products ($49,558.43 spend in 2015) and Rapidly Renewable Fiber products ($15,593.87 spend in 2015), which are not included in the criteria for this credit but also have sustainability attributes. Only $3,021 out of the $114,865 total TQM janitorial paper product spend in 2015 was for non-rated conventional products, but only $46,692 is Green Seal/FSC certified, which is the amount claimed in this credit for TQM's janitorial paper purchases.

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