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Purchasing
NEW PRODUCT -
100% recycled rolled paper towels
Thanks go out to Melanie Wambach, the B&G Purchasing Agent - Bard switched to coreless toilet paper. This will amount to a 37% reduction in packaging waste and require fewer refills. The toilet paper is made from 45% post consumer recycled waste, and is elemental chlorine free.
The Director of Purchasing, Julie Myers, has been sourcing 100% post consumer waste, recycled paper for all of Bard's office paper for over five years.
Green Dorm information - we buy our furniture from here!
http://www.savoyfurniture.com/pdfs/EnvironmentalPolicy.pdf
Since Bard is an Energy Star™ campus, we encourage all plug ins to be Energy Star™, where possible. Other important action is individual…don’t buy it – visit the fRE-USE store , use less and downgrade purchases as much as possible.
Paper
When typing documents, especially drafts, use a smaller font, decrease margins and decrease the spacing between lines, or reformat to keep your document to as few pages as possible. Reducing your margins to 0.75 inch provides 20% more print space.
Review your document on the screen instead of printing a draft. If you must print a draft, use the blank back side of used sheets and use the ‘draft’ print setting – it’s faster and uses less toner. It may be possible to keep once-used paper in an extra tray in your printer. Be sure to make copies of large documents using a copy machine, not a printer, and select the double sided option.
Students - it's easy to achieve savings of about 50% in paper use by requesting that professors accept papers printed on both sides or for drafts - load the printer with paper that has already been used on one side (you can often scrounge used paper from recycling bins in computer labs). Remember - print only once and then check the printer queue on your computer - you may have to wait for other jobs to finish before yours can begin.
Printing Power Point presentations with multiple slides per page print on both sides can result in up to twelve-fold savings. Go to “File - Print,” then “Print what” and choose “Handouts” to fit more slides on a page.
Green Cleaning Products
The Bard Nursery School started using H2Orange2, a certified green cleaning product, in 2005.
Food Services
- Local Food: Chartwells now buys all our milk from Hudson Valley Fresh - a consortium of local dairy farms! Local farms sell products at area farm stands – this is a great way to support the farming industry in Red Hook. Chartwells continues efforts to bring local foods into the Dining Halls.
- Organic Food: Buying organic foods protects the soil and the environment and reduces your exposure to chemicals. Eating locally-grown food reduces the embodied energy in the foods for transportation and the food will be fresher.
- Kline Dishes: To keep disposable dishes to a minimum, Kline offers durable dishes. As durable dishes and utensils started to walk out of the dining hall, Chartwells has had to use paper goods. To help counteract the inventory losses, the Compost Commandos started collecting dishes from the residence halls through the Kline Dish Return program in 2005.
- Community Garden: Summer potlucks take place at the Community Garden, on Wednesday evenings.
Purchasing signs and printables (future)
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