Environmental Solutions

With Staples Advantage^®, you not only have a supplier who shares your corporate responsibility values, you have a consultant to help you achieve your sustainability goals. We work hard to help you reduce your environmental footprint through solutions that include eco-conscious products, environmental reporting, and ink and toner recycling. Your dedicated Staples Advantage Account Manager will work closely with you to customise a program that achieves your specific goals and objectives.

We support your environmental goals through our:

With thousands of eco-conscious items to choose from, we make it easy for you to find high-quality, great-value products that have less impact on the environment.

• More than 2,000 paper items (notebooks, writing pads, Post-it^® notes, printing paper) with post-consumer recycled content, including Staples^® brand 50% and 100% recycled printing papers that are also FSC certified
• Innovative and exclusive alternative-fiber paper products, such as Staples^® brand notebooks and paper made from sugarcane fiber residue (the by-product of sugar manufacturing)
• Pens, scissors, binders, organizers and other plastic products containing post-consumer recycled plastics
• Reduced-impact alternative products such as biodegradable packing peanuts and nontoxic, Green Seal™ certified cleaners
• Furniture and office panel systems made with high-content post-consumer recycled materials (steel, wood, etc.) that are also GREENGUARD- or Indoor Advantage-certified for promoting indoor air-quality excellence
• Wide selection of ENERGY STAR-qualified and EPEAT-registered technology from leading brands
  
  

Learn more about our environmental products.

Staples^® EcoEasy^SM

Look for the Staples EcoEasy label in our catalogues and online to find products that contain recycled content or meet eco-conscious standards.

Learn more about Staples EcoEasy.

We make it easy for you to measure the impact of your sustainable initiatives through clear, detailed reporting and quarterly business reviews. 

Our environmental reporting can quantify the benefits achieved through your:

• Recycled paper spend
• Increased usage of online catalogs over paper versions
  
  

We use Environmental Defense Fund data to demonstrate the benefits of your recycled product use in terms of energy, trees and water saved, carbon emissions avoided, and other metrics important to your sustainability efforts.

Staples is committed to the highest level of eco-conscious responsibility by recycling or reusing 100% of a cartridge’s components. Not only do we recycle all of your ink and toner cartridges, our drivers will collect them from you the next time a delivery is made. It’s that easy.

We can provide you with customised educational materials on green products and other sustainable practices to help increase awareness to your organisation’s environmental initiatives.

To help reduce paper waste, we offer convenient, easy-to-use online versions of our catalogs. We can work with you to develop a campaign to transition your end users from paper to online catalogues, and report the number of trees used and the amount of CO2 emissions and water saved as a result.

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