Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 61.13
Liaison Elizabeth Drake
Submission Date March 6, 2020

STARS v2.2

Swarthmore College
OP-13: Cleaning and Janitorial Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.94 / 1.00 Aurora Winslade
Director of Sustainability
Office of Sustainability
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Cleaning products 

Total annual expenditures on cleaning products:
37,631.73 US/Canadian $

Annual expenditures on certified green cleaning products:
33,409.96 US/Canadian $

Janitorial paper products 

Total annual expenditures on janitorial paper products:
76,243 US/Canadian $

Annual expenditures on certified green janitorial paper products:
73,228.32 US/Canadian $

A brief description of the time period on which the figures reported above are based :
Expenditures have been calculated from reports provided by vendors Hillyard and Frank T. McCalls.

Metric used in scoring

Percentage of expenditures on cleaning and janitorial products that are third party certified to meet recognized sustainability standards:
93.65

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:
Christopher Kane
Strategic Sourcing Manager
Purchasing Office
ckane1@swarthmore.edu
(610) 690-5529

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