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The Staples Campaign
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Staples: #1 Forest Destroyer

Update! Staples responds to campaign, commits to new environmentally sound practices!

Staples is the largest and fastest growing office super store in the world, with over 1,400 stores and locations in 48 states plus Washington, DC and the UK, Canada, Germany, Portugal and the Netherlands.

Real price of Staples paperStaples’ sale of paper is driving the destruction of our endangered forests world-wide including in US National Forests, the forests of the southeast, and old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest.

Staples is opening new stores at an alarming rate: during 1999 Staples opened its 1000th store and in a single day opened 22 retail stores. As the number of Staples stores in-creases so does the number of forests destroyed. Environmentalists have been trying to persuade Staples to stop selling endangered forests for over two and a half years.

Staples has refused. It is critical that we demand that Staples stop destroying forests. We are calling on Staples to:

  • Immediately phase out of all wood and paper products made from old growth fiber.
  • Immediately phase out of all wood and paper products made from fiber from US public lands.
  • Set a target of 50% post consumer content for all paper products and begin an immediate phase out of all products that are 100% virgin wood fiber.
  • Make available 100% post consumer paper and paper that is made from agricultural fiber in all stores or other points of sale.
  • Educate all employees, customers, and suppliers on the benefits of recycled paper, recycling, the availability of alternative fibers, and the benefits of healthy forest resources.

Experts expect worldwide paper and paperboard consumption will increase 90% from 1993 levels by 2010. ECOS is working as part of a national coalition, working to force Staples to stop destroying our forests, by holding them publicly accountable until they agree to the above demands. You can help force Staples to reform their practices by doing the following:

  1. Visit our local Staples on 1400 North & Main, and inform the manager that you will not be shopping there until they start selling less regular paper, more recycled paper, and stop selling paper made from National Forests.
  2. Call the store at 752-9063, and tell the manager the same thing.
  3. Join ECOS at our next Staples demonstration - sign up for our email list to get the details!

 

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