Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 50.16
Liaison Lissette Hernandez
Submission Date Sept. 20, 2013
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STARS v1.2

Florida International University
OP-12: Office Paper Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.68 / 2.00
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Does the institution have an institution-wide stated preference to purchase recycled content office paper?:
No

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 :

FIU has set a standard that any white office paper purchased must have a minimum of 30% recycled content. FIU Business Services has worked with OfficeMax, FIU's preferred office supplier, to automatically default white office paper purchase to 30% recycled content.


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 :
865.04 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on 30-49 percent recycled-content office paper :
210,034.85 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on 50-69 percent recycled-content office paper :
20,338.31 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 :
16,647.66 US/Canadian $

Total expenditures on office paper :
247,886 US/Canadian $

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Paper purchase expenditures is from OfficeMax, FIU's contracted supplier, however employees do not have to purchase from OfficeMax, so it is assumed that there are some paper purchases at other companies.


Paper purchase expenditures is from OfficeMax, FIU's contracted supplier, however employees do not have to purchase from OfficeMax, so it is assumed that there are some paper purchases at other companies.

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