What We're Doing

Purchasing

Green Purchasing

Central Stores is committed to procuring recycled commodities for WWU. Approximately 90 percent of Central Store's inventory contains recycled material. Copy, printer and janitorial papers contain between 30 and 100 percent post-consumer waste materials. All janitorial cleaning products are Green-Seal approved. Central Stores also stocks and encourages the use of quality, recycled printer cartridges. All used cartridges are collected and returned to cartridge suppliers to be recycled. 100 percent Western's computer purchases are EPEAT gold certified. This includes desktop and laptop computers as well as monitors. Office Depot—Central Stores' office supplies vendor—encourages and emphasizes the purchase and use of recycled products, and offers Western competitive pricing on recycled goods. Central Stores is also working towards consolidating delivery services to end-users and centralizing vendor deliveries to campus in an effort to reduce traffic and increase pedestrian safety at WWU. http://www.wwu.edu/fs/Purchasing/p_productpricing.shtml

Program Contact: John Zuzarte, Program Manager, Central Stores
Email: John.Zuzarte@wwu.edu | Phone: (360) 650-2678

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Program News

The Western Front: Custodians introduce energy-saving technology... {4/22/11}
The Western Front: Local business bans the bag {4/15/11}
The Western Front: AS Bookstore shows support for plastic bag ban {4/12/11}
The Western Front: Bellingham aims to ban the bag {3/8/11}
The Western Front: Plastic bag ban could come to Whatcom County {3/8/11}
The Western Front: Western students maintain waste, talk trash {2/25/11}