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We
are committed to minimise the impacts of our operations on the environment by
means of a programme of continuous improvement.
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- Manage our environmental responsibilities including full compliance with
UK, Eire and EU regulations as applicable
- Assess and manage the environmental impacts of our operations
- Maintain an Environmental Management System to ISO 14001 standard
- Exercise product stewardship in conjunction with our suppliers
- Undertake a regular audit process and monitor continuous improvement
- Commit to prevent pollution where ever practical within our business
operation
- Communicate our policy to employees, customers and suppliers and make
available to other interested parties
Office Depot has been working with London Remade since March 2003 raising awareness of sustainable office products,
developing best practice and helping customers make environmentally informed purchasing decisions.
Since 1995 Office Depot Uk has been a
member of this joint venture between the global charity and UK companies
committed to reducing their impact on the world's forests by supporting certification and raw material source tracking.
Office
Depot chair the British Office Systems stationery Trade Federation Environment Committee and lead the
WEEE directive sub-committee. Under our leadership BOSS champions' industry-wide awareness/improvement, built an improved Environmental Certificate scheme offering recognition
to smaller business and introduced a guest speaker programme developing
committee effectiveness. OD actively promotes environmental best practice at industry level.
As part of our on going environmental commitments Office Depot is looking at ways to reduce the environmental impact of out
packaging. Such initiatives are:
- Trial to establish the impact of using a recyclable polythene mailer instead of
existing non-recyclable MailLite bags.
- Replace Kraft paper (up to 75% virgin fibre) with a fully recycles outer paper.
- Investigation into using a polytheist pillow system instead of the usual brown void fills paper, reducing our use of raw material.
the polythene pillow are fully recyclable
- As an alternative to Mailing envelopes we are also undertaking trial for an order encapsulation system that automatically wraps the contents with a significantly
smaller quantity of materials than the existing methods.
- Increase in recycled content of cartons is being investigated.
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