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OfficeMax ‘Boomerang Box’ Aims to Cut Delivery Box Consumption 80%

June 14, 2012June 14, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

OfficeMax has launched a program that reuses and recycles the boxes it uses for deliveries to business customers. The office supply company expects the initiative to reduce box consumption by 80 percent among participating businesses. The program, Boomerang Box by OfficeMax, started this month in Seattle and will expand nationwide ... Read more »

Faith Leaders Tell Walmart to Match Competitors Best Buy, Staples and Office Depot’s E-Waste Policies

June 4, 2012June 4, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Environmental activists and local clergy from all 50 states have called on Walmart to change its e-waste recycling policies. The “Open Letter to Walmart on Stewardship of Electronic Waste,” signed by more than 100 priests, pastors, rabbis, lay leaders, faith-based activists and theologians, asks the retail giant to match its ... Read more »

Standards & Compliance Briefing: Smart Grid Roadmap, Energy Star Objections, ISO 14001, LEED

March 1, 2012June 23, 2013 by Leon Walker

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finished incorporating public comments into the NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards, Release 2.0, a plan for updating the nation’s electric power system into an interoperable smart grid. The final 2.0 framework adds 22 standards, specifications and guidelines ... Read more »

Office Depot Recycling Earnings up 37%; CO2 Down 11%

February 1, 2012March 21, 2012 by Tamar Wilner

In 2010 Office Depot earned $2.43 million from recycling, up 37% from 2009, according to its 2011 Corporate Citizenship Report. The company, which has a goal of earning more money from product recycling than it spends on sending waste to landfills, also reduced waste costs by 4 percent to $3.81 ... Read more »

Univ. Central Florida Wins Energy Star ‘Battle of the Buildings’

November 4, 2011November 4, 2011 by Leon Walker

The University of Central Florida has won the EPA’s 2011 Energy Star National Building Competition: Battle of the Buildings. UCF’s winning building was a parking garage (pictured) on the university’s main campus where energy use was decreased by over 63 percent. Lighting accounts for the majority of energy consumed by ... Read more »

Seven More Companies Dump Sustainable Forestry Initiative

September 16, 2011September 16, 2011 by Leon Walker

AT&T, State Farm and Comcast are among seven Fortune 500 companies that have joined a growing corporate movement against the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, an eco-label that a non-profit alleges “greenwashes” environmentally damaging products. The trend began in March when seven other prominent brands – Allstate, Office Depot, United Stationers, Garnet ... Read more »

Office Depot Aims to Save 20,000 Trees With Paper Bag Roll-Out

August 3, 2011August 3, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Office Depot will offer delivery service customers the option to receive supplies in paper bags rather than cardboard boxes, in an effort it hopes will reduce waste by 3.5 million pounds. The initiative, called the GreenerOffice Delivery Service, is being rolled out nationwide following a pilot in which over 90 ... Read more »

Earth Day Briefing: 3M, Macy’s, Office Depot, Lowe’s

April 22, 2011April 22, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Companies have been announcing environmental initiatives left, right and center this week (and that’s on top of the selection we already ran last Friday.) Here’s some more that caught our eye. 3M launched Scotch Magic Eco-Friendly Tape, made from more than 75 percent renewable or recycled materials. The boxed refill ... Read more »

Allstate, Office Depot, Five Others to Drop Sustainable Forestry Label

March 29, 2011March 29, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Aetna, Allstate and five other companies have made commitments to stop using the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) eco-label, a non-profit has announced. ForestEthics said that Garnet Hill, Performance Bicycles, Symantec and United Stationers have all taken actions to drop the label, joining Office Depot, whose phase-out ForestEthics announced last fall. ... Read more »

LEED Roundup: Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Courtyard by Marriott, Office Depot, Mars

October 1, 2010October 1, 2010 by Gina Roos

Here’s the latest roundup of some of the most recent businesses and office buildings that have earned the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. These include Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Courtyard by Marriot, Office Depot, and Mars. Here are highlights for each LEED certification project. Alexion ... Read more »

Office Deport CSR: Electricity Use, Carbon Footprint Down 11%

September 13, 2010 by Gina Roos

Office Depot, a global provider of office products and services, has reduced its electricity use and expenses as well as its overall carbon footprint by 11 percent, according to the company’s 2010 Corporate Citizenship Report. In 2009, Office Depot also lowered its waste expenditures by $1 million and helped customers ... Read more »

Amazon, Costco, Xpedx Fail to Make the ‘Green’ Grade

September 10, 2010September 12, 2010 by Gina Roos

Office retail stores FedEx Office, Office Depot and Staples earned top grades in the latest Green Grades office supply report card that ranks office retailers, mass market retailers and wholesalers/distributors on their paper practices. Laggards include Amazon, Costco, and xpedx earning overall “F+” and “D” and “D-” grades, respectively. The ... Read more »

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