Take a look at a few of our awards and recognitions:

• EPA Top 25 Green Power Partner and Top 10 Retail Green Power Partner
• U.S. EPA Climate Protection Award
• U.S. EPA and U.S. DOE Green Power Leadership Award
• 2010 Dow Jones Sustainability Index Member (our 6th year in a row)

• Ranked No. 20 overall and No. 2 among retailers in the NEWSWEEK Green Rankings for 2009, which ranks the environmental efforts of the largest 500 companies in the United States http://greenrankings.newsweek.com/top500
• Ranked No. 2 among 35 global retail sector companies and No. 34 out of 541 global companies evaluated in the 2009 Covalence Ethical Ranking (www.covalence.ch)
• Corporate Responsibility Officer (CRO) Top 100 companies in 2010, No. 60
• In September 2009, for the sixth consecutive year, Staples was selected as a component of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) for 2009/10
• 2009 National Recycling Coalition Recycling Works Award
• 2009 U.S. EPA New England Environmental Merit Award winner, recognized for excellence in the management of our corporate fleet and our membership as a Shipper partner in the U.S. EPA SmartWay program
• Named to Sustainable Business 20 (SB20) List by SustainableBusiness.com in 2008
• EPA Green Power Partner recognition: ranked No. 5 among all retailers, No. 16 among Fortune 500 companies and No. 28 nationwide (January 2010)
• 2008 Corporate Citizen of the Year Award from the New England Clean Energy Council
• Corporate Express Australia, a Staples company, was named 2008 Sustainable Company of the Year by Ethical Investor
• 2007 Climate Champion Award by Clean Air-Cool Planet (CA-CP), the leading nonprofit working to find and promote solutions to global warming in the Northeast (October 2007)
• 2007 AltWheels "Green Pioneer" Award honoring Staples for its position as the largest private user of solar power in New England (September 2007)
• Green Power Leadership Award from the EPA and Department of Energy in the Green Power Purchase category