2013 Corporate Responsibility Report
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Greener paper choices<br />
Our Sustainable Paper Procurement Policy forms the foundation of our<br />
commitment to ensuring that the paper products we sell are sourced in an<br />
environmentally and socially responsible manner, and defines our expectations<br />
for suppliers of paper-based products. The policy focuses on four key areas:<br />
1. Protecting forest resources and communities<br />
2. Reducing demand for virgin wood fiber<br />
3. Sourcing from paper mills committed to environmental excellence<br />
4. <strong>Report</strong>ing on our progress<br />
We collaborate with several non-profits to help us improve paperproduct<br />
sustainability, and will continue to work closely with our<br />
suppliers and other stakeholders to ensure we are improving our forestmanagement<br />
practices, protecting endangered and high conservationvalue<br />
forests and developing more sustainable products.<br />
Through our participation in Rainforest Alliance’s SmartSource program, we<br />
supported the development of a Web-based sustainability sourcing evaluation<br />
tool for wood and paper products. The SmartSource 360 online tool enables large<br />
paper buyers like Staples to trace the origins of these products and determine<br />
whether responsible sourcing practices have been used. Over the past two<br />
years, Staples has rolled out SmartSource 360 to more than 30 suppliers in Asia<br />
and elsewhere to gain additional visibility into the wood fiber sourcing practices<br />
of our paper-based products. To help build capabilities with our suppliers,<br />
we have hosted several training sessions for our suppliers and participated<br />
in two responsible fiber sourcing events in China over the past two years.<br />
For several years, Staples has helped lead a multi-stakeholder effort called<br />
the Carbon Canopy in collaboration with the Dogwood Alliance. This effort<br />
engages other conservation groups, global brands, wood product companies<br />
and landowners to protect forests, combat climate change and help develop<br />
sources of Forest Stewardship Council-certified paper and wood products.<br />
Staples partners with several<br />
organizations on our paper<br />
sustainability initiatives:<br />
Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement<br />
Carbon Canopy<br />
Forest Legality Alliance<br />
Forest Products Working Group<br />
(FPWG), a project of GreenBlue<br />
Rainforest Alliance SmartSource<br />
RIT Golisano Institute<br />
for Sustainability<br />
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