Environmental Education

Staples is committed to helping our customers run their businesses and live in a more sustainable manner. Our goal is to make it easy for our customers to make a difference through their interactions with Staples. Whether purchasing products with environmental features, making recycling easy, or providing them with useful environmental information, we strive to increase environmental awareness.

Education Initiatives

We seek to provide helpful environmental resources, tools, and information to businesses nationally, with a focus on waste reduction, recycling, and purchasing environmentally preferable products.

Staples Foundation for Learning® has partnered with the nonprofit organization Earth Force to help provide environmental education curriculum and program materials for teachers and students in several communities in the United States. Students tackle local environmental issues, fostering civic engagement and a deeper understanding of the many causes and impacts of environmental problems.

In 2007, Staples was a national sponsor of America Recycles Day for the 6th consecutive year, helping to raise awareness of how Americans can protect natural resources through recycling and buying recycled content products.

To keep our stakeholders up to date on our environmental progress, we provide relevant information to our associates, customers, and other stakeholders in several ways, including our web site, annual reporting, and other communications.

• Environmentally Preferable Products
• Recycling
• Energy & Climate
• Environmental Education
• Staples Soul Main

• Environmental Paper Procurement Policy (PDF)
• 2007 Staples Soul Report (PDF)

• Earth 911 Business
• Earth Force
• America Recycles Day