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How We strive to Increasingly Buy Green

When we buy products, we give serious consideration to reducing environmental impact. We may not always buy green, or select the greenest option, but we are doing more than many other companies. For example, over 50% of our marketing papers in the US were from FSC-certified forests in 2008. That's high for our industry. We also ended 2008 with 6,100+ active products items with green attributes in our assortment for resale in North America, including 80+ items in our new brand Office Depot Green™.

Also, since there is no standard definition for "green," we're active in multi-stakeholder efforts to bring clarity to this question. In the interim, we have created a comprehensive set of green attributes and icons to clarify "what is green. Four out of 14 of these are shown here, and others can be seen by clicking here. We accept that these icons are imperfect in their simplicity. But we think that's better than the imperfect complexity that defines green purchasing today.