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What is Sustainability?
• “A sustainable community uses its resources to meet current needs while ensuring that adequate resources are available for future generations.” (Source: World Commission on Environment and Development 1987)
• Sustainability is about “meeting the need of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. (Source: U.N. Agenda 21)
• Sustainability is becoming a corporate imperative.
• Corporations are being ranked on their ability to integrate business practices that meet economic, social and environmental goals.
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Sustainable Formula
Sustainability = Green + Fiscal Responsibility
OR
Sustainability = (People & Planet) + (Performance, Process & Price)
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CE Sustainable Mission
Corporate Express provides our customer with socially and
environmentally responsible solutions for a cleaner and
healthier work environment while being your lowest total cost
solution provider.
This is achieved through our manufacturing and technical
expertise. Innovation, training, quality standards, and world class
e-way and single source B2B national distribution model.
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Corporate Express and Sustainability
• Sustainability Policy(www.cexp.com/sustainability.html)
– Our belief in demonstrating leadership, responsibility and accountability regarding sustainability
– Outlines our commitment to reduce our environmental impact while balancing social equity and economic vitality
– Includes goals related to: Social Responsibility Climate Change Alternative Transportation Green Buildings Sustainable Forestry Post Consumer Waste Environmentally Sustainable Products
• Corporate Express = Sustainable Advocate
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Green Drivers of Change-Carbon Footprint
• Copy Paper
• Toner
• Writing Instruments
• Ordering Process
• Deliveries
• Envision Eco Liners
• Eco Breakroom Supplies
• Sustainable Earth Chemicals
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$ustainable Drivers of Change-Economic
• Copy Paper– Duplex– Recycled
• Toner– Hewlett Packard
Recycled Story Energy Efficient Equipment
– Cartridge King
• Writing Instruments• Ordering Process
– Vendor Consolidation– Internet Ordering– Average Order Size
• Deliveries• Eco Breakroom Supplies
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State Use Partners
• Cartridge King – Remanufactured Inkjet Cartridges– Remanufactured Laser Cartridges– Hewlett Packard
• Ketch– Recycled Binders
• Envision– Eco Degradable Liners– Totally Recycled Liners
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How to become $ustainable
• Learn How to Brag!• Challenge “what is green and
what is sustainable?”• Challenge the Perception that
green products are expensive and don’t perform
• Have each department identify 1 new practice each month
• Access to affordable, credible and easy access to information
• Don’t develop too many standards/criteria
• Make it FUN!
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Corporate Express Obligation
• Understand sustainability and the intent of the ‘green movement’
• Define sustainability in universally accepted terms
• Operate within those sustainable standards
• Promote clarity of products and the process of sustainability
• Sustainable Audits