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

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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?

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

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EBOM-2009 MRc1:Sustainable Purchasing—Ongoing Consumables

Wide Format Paper - business required, no recycled options??

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Jennifer Fitts
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Fuss & O'Neill
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Our business uses large/wide format printing for design plans quite a bit and the paper has accounted for a large portion of our purchasing. I've gone to our vendors to see about recycled content product, but it just isn't available. Is there exception at all for needing to purchase product that would normally fall under a typical category but doesn't have a sustainable option for the specific product being used? I'm 9 percentage points away from this credit because of this and I'll be so disappointed if we don't make it....

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David Posada
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Tue, 03/29/2011 - 20:10

You might try looking into FSC certified wide-format paper: http://www.fscus.org/paper/ and use the link to find the lists of certified papers and manufacturers. Some of these have recycled content as well. There can be a fuzzy area between products that aren't "available" or "known to be available." In some markets, we've seen printing companies competing with each other to be more "sustainable" by providing wide-format recycled paper, FSC paper, picking up used tubes, cartridges, etc. Since one of the main goals of LEED is market transformation, they're unlikely to grant an exception based on a vendor's claim it's not available, but that does but some of the burden on individual project teams to push for things like this. That's one way a local chapter of the USGBC or a local LEED user group can be very helpful - putting out the call for a particular product and showing there's real demand for it.

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