Transforming the Office Supply Sector
Where do most people and businesses purchase their paper? From the office supply retailers of course. Over the past 20 years, big box office supply retailers have become one of the world’s largest retailers of paper. For many people, familiar companies like Staples, Office Depot and OfficeMax represent the link from the forest to the paper mill producing the paper on the shelves of Staples, Office Depot and OfficeMax. Over the years we have worked hard to educate people about the importance of forests and the negative environmental impacts of business as usual paper production. With this effort, we have achieved systemic change throughout the paper industry through public campaigns against the largest retail paper sellers in the US - office super stores like Staples, Office Depot, OfficeMax and others. In less than a decade, the office supply sector has now transitioned from one of the most environmentally destructive industries to one that has begun to challenge the world's largest paper companeis to improve foresty practices. Now comes the task of turning agreements into on the ground protection for Southern forests and forests all over the world.
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