Office Depot honors green partners

BOCA RATON, Fla. — Office Depot announced that it has rewarded 25 organizations for their leadership in greener purchasing. The awards were presented during Office Depot’s greener purchasing summit and awards ceremony on Nov. 15 in Oakland, Calif.

"Greener purchasing of office supplies can serve as a good proxy for an organization’s overall environmental commitment," said Yalmaz Siddiqui, senior director of environmental strategy for Office Depot. “The winners are an elite group – our top 25 greenest purchasers from over 7,500 customers that we evaluated using our unique green spend analysis and reporting tools."

The awards are based primarily on the percentage of the customers' expenditure with Office Depot (from January to June 2011) on products with greener attributes such as recycled content; energy-efficiency; non-toxicity; and/or ecolabels such as FSC, EPEAT, GreenSeal, and EcoLogo, the company said. Customers whose business relationship with Office Depot only covered one or two product categories such as paper or ink and toner were excluded from the analysis, as the goal was to recognize those with broad-based, environmentally preferable purchasing programs.

The following organizations received leadership awards during the greener purchasing summit and awards Ceremony:

Corporate

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  Bechtel Corporation - Leadership in Greener Purchasing

  
  


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  CB Richard Ellis - Leadership in Greener Purchasing

  
  


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  Chevron - Leadership in Greener Purchasing

  
  


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  COACH - Leadership in Greener Purchasing

  
  


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  DaVita - Leadership in Greener Purchasing

  
  


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  Eddie Bauer - Leadership in Greener Purchasing

  
  


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  Facebook - Special Recognition for End User Engagement

  
  


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  Google - Special Recognition for Greener Supply Cabinets

  
  


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  JM Family Enterprises, Inc. - Leadership in Greener Purchasing

  
  


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  Legal, Financial & Professional Services

  
  


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  Comerica - Financial Sector Leadership in Greener Purchasing

  
  


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  JP Morgan Chase - Financial Sector Leadership in Greener Purchasing

  
  


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  Littler Mendelson Fastiff - Legal Sector Leadership in Greener Purchasing

  
  


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  M&T Bank - Financial Sector Leadership in Greener Purchasing

  
  


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  McKenna Long & Aldridge - Legal Sector Leadership in Greener Purchasing

  
  


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  Saatchi & Saatchi North America - Leadership in Greener Purchasing

  
  


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  Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom - Legal Sector Leadership in Greener Purchasing

  
  

Non Profit / Academic / Association

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  Environmental Defense - Non Profit Leadership in Greener Purchasing

  
  


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  Ormond Beach Chamber - Chamber of Commerce Leadership in Greener Purchasing

  
  


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  Screen Actors Guild - Non Profit Leadership in Greener Purchasing

  
  


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  University of Washington - University Leadership in Greener Purchasing

  
  

Public Sector

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  City of Portland - Leadership in Supplier Environmental Engagement

  
  


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  Department of Social & Health Services, State of Washington - State Agency Leadership in Greener Purchasing

  
  


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  Department of Transportation, State of Washington - Special Recognition for Recycled Paper Purchasing

  
  


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  Department of Veterans Affairs - Federal Leadership in Greener Purchasing

  
  


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  State of Washington - State Government Leadership in Greener Purchasing