Environmental Solutions

We focus our efforts on areas where we can have the greatest positive impact:

•    Sustainable products
•    Recycling and other environmental services
•    Sustainable operations, with a focus on energy efficiency, renewable energy and waste reduction

With Staples Advantage^®, you not only have a supplier who shares your corporate responsibility values, you have a consultant to help you achieve your sustainability goals. We work hard to help you reduce your environmental footprint through solutions that include eco-conscious products, environmental reporting, and ink and toner recycling. Your dedicated Staples Advantage Account Manager will work closely with you to customise a programme that achieves your specific goals and objectives.

We support your environmental goals through our:

With thousands of eco-conscious items to choose from, we make it easy for you to find high-quality, great-value products that have less impact on the environment.

• More than 2,000 paper items (notebooks, writing pads, Post-it® notes, printing paper) with post-consumer recycled content, including Staples® brand 50% and 100% recycled printing papers that are also FSC certified
• Innovative and exclusive alternative-fiber paper products, such as Staples® brand notebooks and paper made from sugarcane fiber residue (the by-product of sugar manufacturing)
• Pens, scissors, binders, organisers and other plastic products containing post-consumer recycled plastics
• Wide selection of ENERGY STAR-qualified and EPEAT-registered technology from leading brands

Look for the Staples EcoEasy icon in our catalogues and online to find products that contain recycled content or meet eco-conscious standards.

Learn more about our environmental products

Staples is committed to the highest level of eco-conscious responsibility by recycling or reusing 100% of a cartridge’s components. Not only do we recycle all of your ink and toner cartridges, our drivers will collect them from you the next time a delivery is made. It’s that easy.

From 1 February 2010, Staples introduced the take back of used batteries from end users free of charge to our contract customers. Battery collection boxes are provided at all our 139 retails stores nationwide, and we ensure that any waste batteries using these boxes are sent to an approved treatment facility for compliant disposal.