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Office Depot Introduces “Office Depot Green”
Company is First in Office Supplies Industry to Launch Dedicated Line of Environmentally Preferable Products
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BEACH, Fla.—Office Depot® , a leading global provider of office
products and services, today announced the launch of its new,
environmentally preferable line of office supplies called “Office Depot
Green.” As the first retailer in the office supply industry to
introduce a dedicated green brand with consistent and simple to
identify packaging for consumers, this launch demonstrates Office
Depot’s commitment to the environment and reinforces its leadership in
the category.Office Depot Green will grow to encompass a wide
assortment of products including core supplies, such as recycled paper,
notebooks and file folders, as well as remanufactured ink and toner
cartridges, non-toxic cleaners and compact fluorescent light bulbs
(CFLs).The new Office Depot Green line is currently available
at the Company’s more than 1,200 stores nationwide and online at
http://www.officedepot.com/buygreen. The brand will include products with a
variety of environmental benefits including 30 percent or more recycled
content, remanufactured, Energy Star qualified and Green Seal
certified. Office Depot currently carries more than 4,000 products
containing recycled content and hundreds more with other environmental
benefits across its wide assortment of office supplies, furniture and
technology.“At Office Depot, we are dedicated to improving our own
sustainability as well as that of our customers, vendors and
suppliers,” said Chuck Rubin, President of North American Retail for
Office Depot. “The introduction of a new Office Depot Green line builds
upon our corporate commitment to increasingly buy green, be green and
sell green, and provides our customers with greater access to products
that can save them money while helping the planet.”Environmentally-preferable products featured in Office Depot’s assortment include:
* Recycled-content copy paper, notepads, notebooks, file folders and envelopes;
* Recycled-content paper towels and tissues;
* Refills for writing instruments;
* Energy-efficient light bulbs;
* Remanufactured ink and toner cartridges;
* Furniture manufactured with less chemicals;
* Recycled-content chairs;
* Energy Star certified technology; and
* Non-toxic cleaning supplies.The
launch of Office Depot Green is another example of Office Depot’s
longstanding commitment to the environment. Since 2003, Office Depot
has developed and implemented a number of “green” initiatives,
including:* Creating The Green Book catalog of thousands of
environmentally-friendly products and educational content for Office
Depot’s small, medium and large business customers;
*
Establishing a $2.2 million Forest & Biodiversity Conservation
Alliance through which Office Depot partnered with Conservation
International, NatureServe and The Nature Conservancy to resolve real
issues in the forestry sector to guide our sustainable efforts;
* Developing a Paper Purchasing Policy through which we became the
first office supply company to make Forest Stewardship Council
certified paper widely available in the U.S.;
* Reducing the Company’s overall Carbon Dioxide emissions output in 2006 by 10.1 percent;
* Retrofitting the lighting in the Company’s North American retail
store chain to T5 high-output fluorescent lighting, which is 35 percent
more efficient than traditional, incandescent lighting;
*
Replacing our fleet of “box trucks” to ultra-low-emission “Sprinter”
vehicles, which are on average 40 percent more fuel-efficient than
their predecessors and get an estimated 15 or more miles per gallon; and
* Groundbreaking on the Company’s first “Green” store, which will be
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certified by the
U.S. Green Building Council upon completion in summer 2008.Additional
information on the Company’s environmental programs is available online
at http://mediarelations.officedepot.cc/environment.For a complete
listing of available Office Depot Green products, visit your local
Office Depot retail location or the Company’s online “green store” at
http://www.officedepot.com/buygreen.About Office Depot
Every day,
Office Depot is Taking Care of Business for millions of customers
around the globe. For the local corner store as well as Fortune 500
companies, Office Depot provides products and services to its customers
through more than 1,600 worldwide retail stores, a dedicated sales
force, top-rated catalogs and a $4.9 billion e-commerce operation.
Office Depot has annual sales of approximately $15.5 billion, and
employs about 49,000 associates around the world. The Company provides
more office products and services to more customers in more countries
than any other company, and currently sells to customers directly or
through affiliates in 43 countries.
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