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EBOM-2009 MRc1: Sustainable Purchasing—Ongoing Consumables

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Toner Cartridges

April 13, 2010

Reynaldo Castro

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April 13, 2010

I am having a hard time achieving this point because we spend way more money on toner cartridges then any other on-going consumable. I have yet to find a way to buy toner cartridges that meet one of the LEED Criteria. Can someone please help?

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Dan Ackerstein

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Ackerstein Sustainability, LLC

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April 13, 2010 - 5:37 pm

I think the best place to start with any purchasing challenge is your vendor - they know the marketplace and should be very motivated to help. If they can't deliver, contact one or two of their competitors, who may be even MORE motivated to help. I know there are a number of recycled content or remanufactured toner cartridges on the market - hopefully your vendor can lead you right to them if an internet search doesn't.

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FAQs about MRc1:

We purchased hundreds of ongoing consumables items during our performance period. Do we have to enter each discrete purchase into the LEED Online credit form?

Our organization has a centralized purchasing program that buys products for several buildings, including the one pursuing LEED-EBOM certification. It’s difficult to track which ongoing consumable goods purchases are used in the EBOM building versus the

Purchasing for our organization takes place in the EBOM project building, but not all ongoing consumable goods that are purchased end up being used there. Should we include all of the purchases in MRc1?

We have multiple tenants in our building, some of which are nonresponsive to requests for purchasing records. Can we exclude their purchases?

Does a signed letter from a product manufacturer that states the sustainability criteria met by a particular product count as acceptable LEED documentation?

Do manufacturer claims about the average recycled content, etc. in all its products count as acceptable LEED documentation? For example, a toner cartridge website says that the average post-consumer recycled content is 90% across all its toner products.

Lots of products we purchase seem like they could be tracked in two different purchasing credits. For example, toilet tissue seem like an ongoing consumable since it’s replaced frequently at a low cost per unit (MRc1), but it’s also used for our green

The credit language says we need to track paper (printing or copy paper, notebooks, notepads, envelopes), toner cartridges, binders, batteries and desk accessories. Is that everything we have to track for this credit?

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