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Replacing Boxes With Bags, Office Depot Tries to Save 20,000 Trees
11:44 am in Business & Politics, eco-friendly office, green packaging, recycled consumer goods, shopping by TreeHugger
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Office Depot says it expects to save 3.5 million pounds of wood-based resources by offering to deliver orders in paper bags instead of boxes—which will also eliminate the use of those plastic 'air-pillows' that you can almost never repurpose once you've opened your package. The program, GreenerOffice Delivery Service, uses bags made with 40% post-consumer recycled content. Those come wrapped in what Office Depot calls a reusable plastic tote, mad...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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