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Grand & Toy Helps Businesses Improve Purchasing

April 2, 2015April 1, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Grand & Toy, an affiliate of Office Depot, has launched a program to help Canadian businesses reduce their waste, energy consumption and chemical use by purchasing environmentally sustainable products. The Greener Office Initiative uses Office Depot’s criteria to define environmentally sustainable products. It also assigns “shades of green” to qualifying ... Read more »

Sustainable Purchasing Guidelines Launched

February 5, 2015February 4, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council today will release to the public its Guidance for Leadership in Sustainable Purchasing v1.0. Already, 80 organizations including Ecolab, Lockheed Martin, Office Depot, the US General Services Administration and the EPA, with more than $100 billion in purchasing power, have signed up for the Pilot Program, ... Read more »

Grand & Toy, TerraCycle Expand Successful Coffee Pod Recycling Effort

January 21, 2015January 22, 2015 by Jennifer Hermes

Office Depot affiliate Grand & Toy has launched a retailer recycling program for office products in conjunction with TerraCycle Canada. The announcement comes after a successful five month K-Cup Pack pilot recycling partnership between Grand & Toy and TerraCycle for customers in Southern Ontario; the program, now expanding throughout Canada, will ... Read more »

OfficeMax Grand & Toy, TerraCycle Launch K-Cup Recycling Program

August 21, 2014September 11, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

OfficeMax Grand & Toy, an affiliate of global office products provider Office Depot, and TerraCycle Canada today announced the launch of the nation’s first K-Cup Packs retailer recycling pilot program. K-Cup Packs, the single-serve coffee pods manufactured by Keurig, have become one of OfficeMax Grand & Toy’s most popular coffee products ... Read more »

USGBC, Office Depot, Windfall Help Green Builders Save Money

July 16, 2014July 15, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The US Green Building Council (USGBC) South Florida Chapter has partnered with Office Depot and Windfall, a group purchasing organization, to create a first-of-its-kind Green Group Savings Program for members of the USGBC South Florida chapter. Windfall worked with Office Depot to develop a program that will provide the green ... Read more »

Office Depot Selects Coolerado

May 19, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

Office Depot will add Coolerado air conditioners to some of its stores, working in conjunction with existing, traditional HVAC systems. In this configuration, the existing roof top units will run half as long as they would without the Coolerado units. This will translate to a 50 percent reduction in compressor ... Read more »

Green Business Challenge Awards $80,000

May 2, 2014May 2, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Businesses in Cupertino, Calif.; Houston; Lexington, Ky.; and West Palm Beach, Fla., will soon get help for projects that reduce energy, water waste and carbon footprint. The four winning cities of the Green Business Challenge, sponsored by Office Depot and ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability-USA, will each receive $20,000 along ... Read more »

Stash Ditches SFI Eco-Label

April 28, 2014April 27, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Stash Tea has removed the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) logo from its products following allegations the certification program is controlled by the logging industry, Sustainable Business Oregon reports. Stash joins 24 other companies that have shunned the ecolabel including AT&T, Comcast, Office Depot and Southwest Airlines, according to Forest Ethics. ... Read more »

Office Depot Sustainability Report: Big on Data, Short on Words

October 18, 2013October 18, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

Office Depot’s North American operations reduced their carbon intensity by nine percent last year, from 17.1 lbs CO2e per square ft in 2011 to 15.5 in 2012, according to its 2013 corporate citizenship report. The metric is down 30 percent from 2008 and 46 percent from 2003. On an absolute ... Read more »

Energy Management Saves Office Depot 2.2M Annually

October 3, 2013August 2, 2019 by William Opalka

Irvine, Calif.-based Phoenix Energy Technologies released a case study that shows results of energy saving upgrades at Office Depot. The office supply chain has realized average annual energy savings of $2.2 million, coming from 20,572,352 fewer kWh used. The return on investment was 61 percent, and the simple payback was 12 ... Read more »

Staples Recycles 350 Million Cartridges

August 19, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Staples today said it has recycled 350 million ink and toner cartridges since 2005, averaging more than 60 million cartridges per year in the past three years. Through the cartridge-recycling program, the company has recycled 182 million pounds of plastics and metals, it says. With Staples’ ink and toner cartridge ... Read more »

Office Depot Sets Stricter Paper Purchasing Rules

August 8, 2013August 8, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

Office Depot has set stricter guidelines for purchasing paper from suppliers, including establishing minimum requirement for products claiming to contain recycled content and vowing to only buy virgin fiber certified under one or more forest certification schemes. The new paper guidelines, which update the company’s 2004 supply chain policy, were ... Read more »

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