Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 50.60
Liaison Laurie Husted
Submission Date June 14, 2011
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STARS v1.0

Bard College
OP-12: Office Paper Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.43 / 2.00 Laurie Husted
Sustainability Manager
Bard Office of Sustainability (BoS)
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Does the institution have an institution-wide stated preference to purchase recycled content office paper?:
Yes

The URL where the recycled paper policy, directive, or guidelines are posted:
A brief description of steps the institution has taken to ensure that the purchasing policy, directives, or guidelines are followed :

Paper purchasing is centrally done through the Purchasing Department and Director of Purchasing Julie Myers. She sees that we buy as much 100% post consumer content paper as possible (with 30% post consumer content purchased for departments that claim they are having copy errors because of the 100% paper).


Does the institution wish to pursue points for Part 2 of this credit (expenditures on recycled paper)?:
Yes

Expenditures on 10-29 percent recycled-content office paper :
0 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on 30-49 percent recycled-content office paper :
28,551 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on 50-69 percent recycled-content office paper :
0 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on 70-89 percent recycled-content office paper (required if claiming points for Part 2):
0 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on 90-100 percent recycled-content office paper :
17,899 US/Canadian $

Total expenditures on office paper :
47,037 US/Canadian $

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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