Environmental Responsibility

Acco Brands Europe is committed to providing and conducting its business in an environmentally responsible manner, ensuring that our products, packaging and operations are safe for our employees, our business partners, our customers and ultimately, the environment.

We strive to continuously improve our processes and products to ensure innovation, quality and value for money without compromising on our environmental responsibilities.

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Our core Objectives are to:

Reduce the amounts of material that we use whether in our products or our packaging	Recover the energy produced from waste by safe, effective disposal
Reuse By identifying plastics to aid separation and recovery By recovering parts and establishing re-usability potential	Return materials back to nature
Recycle as much as possible, use significantly more recycled materials in our processes while promoting and supporting the recycling of our products by our business partners and consumers	Review what we have done to try to improve our processes even further

As a testament to our commitment to be more environmentally driven and focused, many of our products have been verified by the MBDC Consultancy and awarded the Cradle to Cradle certification. This certification provides a company with a means to tangibly, credibly measure achievement in environmentally-intelligent design and helps customers purchase and specify products that are pursuing a broader definition of quality.

This means using environmentally safe and healthy materials; design for material reutilization, such as recycling or composting; the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency; efficient use of water, and maximum water quality associated with production; and instituting strategies for social responsibility. For more information visit www.c2ccertified.com.

We are also proud to have been awarded the UK’s BOSS (British Office Supplies and Services) Federation Environmental Award for the past 11 years. The BOSS Federation is the trade association which serves the UK Office Supply and services industry by providing a range of initiatives, cost saving benefits and services, to enhance the business performance of its members.

This comprehensive award scheme covers a wide range of environmental issues, such as reducing energy consumption and improving our employees’ working conditions. For more information visit www.bossfederation.com.