Purchasing Goes Green: Purchasing Initiatives
Sustainability Record:
1. Dining Services:
A. Done:
a. Recycle Food Oil
b. Cardboard
c. A la Cart pricing - food waste down
d. Purchase local through approved vendors
when available
e. Fair Trade and Organic coffee options
f. Catering recycling through Custodial
B. Goals:
a. Recue To Go Containers - plastic
b. "Styrofoam to compostable dinnerware
c. "Steel/Metal - some recycling currently,
but more
d. Wrap and /or clean stations for reusable
containers?
2. Document Center:
A. Positives:
a. Recycles all their toner
b. Centralized Copiers Positive
B. Goals:
a. Satallite Copiers not as efficient
b. Desk Jets very inefficient
c. Paper Loss cf. Library and Computers
d. Work on toner for better system
3. Mason's
A. Positives
a. Blizzard Paper
b. Section of Recycled Products
c. Recycling of Catalogues - Will pick up
d. All receipts on 100% post w/ vegetable orders
e. Green Link on website
B. Opportunities
a. investigate growth of recycled items usage
b. ? toner recycle
c. Green Guard furniture
d. Internal efforts with lighting, trucks, and
PC controls
4. Mail Services
A. Positives
a. Student sign up for junk mial
B. Opportunities
a. get off Junk mail Lists
b. look closely with departments at mass
mailings
5. Furniture
A. Accomplishments:
a. Reuse existing
b. New England Woodcraft
c. Mason's modular
d. Recycling - give old for re-use
(My Brother's Keeper)
B. Goals:
a. Reuse existing
6. Transportation
A. Shuttle:
a. central transport, fewer cars
b. low fuel vehicles
B. Goals
a. incentives in new contract to combine
b. Zip Car?
Bookstore
C. Accomplishments
a. Push used book program
b. work with Faculty
c. Recycle paper, books and boxes
D. Goals
a. Push used book program
b. Reusable bag
7. Laundry
A. Accomplishments
a. Hi efficiency Machines-
b. Advertising
B. Goals
a. New Contract:
b. Higher efficiency machines from 14 gallon
to 7, 6 hot to 1.6 warm
c. Warm water versus hot water
d. Carbon offset buybacks for dryers
8. Purchasing
a. Pro-card
b. Reduce PO's
c. get to paperless and on line requisitions
d. Push on line ordering with companies
e. work w/Responsible Purchasing Network
9. Personal
A. Accomplishment
a. replace regular bucket with recycled
bucket
b. put back-to-back as default printing
B. Goals
a. measure and reduce MY CARBON
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