Please refer to the 4-R hierarchy (Rethink-Reduce-Reuse-Recycle) before purchasing appliances. Determine if you can share one with someone or perhaps find a recently used one.
If you do need to buy energy consuming appliances, you should:

1. Choose Energy Star certified products (if such options exist)
2. Compare your model options by looking at the energy consumption (kWh/year/square foot of storage space for freezers and refrigerators) over 10 years, in addition to comparing the acquisition cost.

For any University-related travels, please refer to our听Travel Services website.

When you book your air-travel through Vision link, you will be informed of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with each of your flight options.

The University receives monthly GHG reports from Vision-travel, which allows us to correctly quantify our emissions from air-travel, and will facilitate offsetting in the future.

海角社区鈥檚 custodial staff and contracted cleaning services only use听贰肠辞濒辞驳辞听certified products.

If you need to buy cleaning products and/or soaps, please make sure these products are听贰肠辞濒辞驳辞听辞谤听骋谤别别苍驳耻补谤诲听certified, and verify that they听do not contain听the following elements:

• Microbeads
• Triclosan, Triclocarban, Hexachlorophene, Fluorosalan, Methylbenzethonium chloride or other similar antibacterial agents

海角社区 is a Fair Trade campus. Please consider the following options to guide your decisions:

• Fair trade coffee, tea, sugar, cocoa
• Local and organic drinks, if possible
• Organic milk products, if possible
• Minimize packaging, and request compostable (first) or recyclable (second) containers, cups etc.
• No straws, and no bottled water (get office jugs)
• Stir sticks should be made of wood or straight pasta

海角社区 has a Guide听 for Sustainable Events, you can find it听here.

Sustainability criteria for this kind of service should include:

• Choosing local, seasonal products, and organic if possible
• Vegetarian and/or vegan options
• Fair trade ingredients (coffee/chocolate/cocoa/sugar)
• No straws and no bottled water (use jugs)
• Minimized packaging
• Avoid disposable items, or buy compostable items
• Variety of dishes to accommodate cultural/religious considerations

海角社区 aims to apply LEED v4 criteria to its furniture purchases. This means that the materials used in the furniture we purchase respect specific health, air quality, and durability criteria. 听Any furniture purchases must meet the听University鈥檚 design standards.

海角社区 has developed Minimum Standard Requirements, including sustainability criteria, for certain categories of IT products. These criteria are applied to all centrally purchased IT equipment. You can find these Minimum Standard Requirements on the听.

Procurement Services has met with its main suppliers of lab products to communicate our community鈥檚 interest in more sustainable options. Supplier catalogues will often highlight their most sustainable options. Before purchasing products in this category, remember to apply 海角社区鈥檚 4-R hierarchy (Rethink-Reduce-Reuse-Recycle), and be mindful of single-use plastics. You can always count on our support if you can鈥檛 find the sustainable options you are looking for.
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Before purchasing products in this category, remember to apply 海角社区鈥檚 4-R hierarchy (Rethink-Reduce-Reuse-Recycle), and be mindful of single-use plastics.听 Supplier(s) offering these kinds of product can be found on 海角社区 Market Place (MMP). As part of their contract with 海角社区, these suppliers must highlight the more sustainable options in their catalogue.

You can also buy some office supplies from the 海角社区 Bookstore, where the team is continuously improving and diversifying its offer of sustainable products.

The paper used in U-Print machines is purchased through an inter-institutional contract, which mandates the use of 100% post-consumer recycled content. This is the paper made available through MMP.

If you intend to buy other paper products, please make sure they have a high post-consumer recycled content, are recyclable, and come from sustainably managed forests.

海角社区 strongly recommends to have printed materials (flyers, leaflets, bulk letters, and so on) printed via听海角社区鈥檚 Printing Services. This team will help you identify sustainable paper options, in compliance with the University鈥檚 Paper Use policy. They also help the University keep track of the quantities of printed materials (for reporting under regulatory mandate by the provincial government).听

Also, make sure you show, on your printed material, what percentage of post-consumer recycled paper was used. Communicating this information on our documents is also mandated by the听University鈥檚 Paper use policy.

Please refer to 海角社区鈥檚 4-R Hierarchy (Rethink-Reduce-Reuse-Recycle), and be mindful of single-use plastics before purchasing promotional items and corporate gifts.

Here are a few additional hints:

• Can you 鈥渄ematerialize鈥� the gift? If you are intending to give presents to people from the Montreal area, why not offer tickets to events held at the Faculty of Music, or at our Molson Stadium?
• If you intend to purchase branded items (with the 海角社区 logo on them), please work with the 海角社区 Bookstore, because this team has developed a unique expertise in finding sustainable and superior quality products, made locally or abroad, and from more ethical suppliers, and even social economy (integration) enterprises.
• If you intend to offer edible gifts, please remember that 海角社区 is a Fair Trade campus, and any coffee, tea or chocolate should be sourced from Fair Trade participating suppliers.
• Other edible options should be local specialties (wine/honey/jams/liquors/maple syrup, and so on).
• Another option of gifts for locals can include locally grown flowers, in season. 听

海角社区 has adopted Minimum Standard Requirements for Vehicles, in order to reduce the environmental impact of our vehicle fleet.听 To find out more, please go to听the Vehicle Asset Management Procedure.听听