Green Procurement Initiatives at Wesleyan

We’ve Done It

Listed below are green initiatives that have been implemented.

	Initiative	Notes
1	Switched over to using 30% recycled copy paper all over campus.
2	Reduced the number of days our suppliers come to campus from 5 days per week to 3 days per week.
3	Offer recycled content office supplies as an alternative to all of our virgin supplies.
4	ProShred - Wesleyan has saved over 750 trees by shredding our confidential papers
5	Two successful "Let's Go Green" vendor shows were held in February 2007 & 2008 to spread awareness to employees and vendors of our focus on sustainability.

 

We’re Working On It

Listed below are initiatives that have been assigned to a person or office to plan a solution.

	Initiative	Status
1	Rewriting Wesleyan's purchasing policy to include environmental considerations
2	Pushing our vendors to reduce the packaging on orders of office supplies
3	WB Mason to reduce the office supplies delivery from three to two times per week beginning July 1, 2011.
4	Require departments to use re-manufactured toners when available.	On going
5	Implement water cooler filtration systems whenever possible.
6	Combine MRO (maintenance repair operation) purchases from one supplier.
7	Vendor consolidation whenever possible.

   

We’re Getting to It

Listed below are initiatives that are in the evaluation stage to determine the best way to accomplish them.

	Initiative	Status
1	Drafting a campus-wide policy for catered events to serve water in pitchers or coolers, rather than serving bottled water.

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Send us suggestions for green initiatives at sustainability@wesleyan.edu.

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