23/AUG/2010
ACCO is committed to reducing our impact on the planet. Our environmental commitment is to:
Reduce the amounts of material that we use - in our products and our packaging.
Recover the energy produced from waste by safe, effective disposal.
Reuse material by identifying plastics to aid separation and recovery and 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.
This means that our new products will be put under scrutiny to check that they are as environmentally friendly as possible. More are being made from sustainable materials. Equipment, such as our shredders, are more energy efficient.
We are also reducing the need to travel to meetings. Instead we try to meet ‘virtually’ over the internet and harnessing technology, such as our Nobo Kapture® Digital Flipchart. Our presentations can be captured straight from the flipchart and shared via Bluetooth®.
Watch this space for more news of our environmental successes.
Notes to editors
About ACCO Europe
ACCO Brands Corporation (NYSE: ABD) is one of the largest suppliers of branded office product worldwide. Our products are marketed in over 100 countries. Its industry-leading brands include Wilson Jones®, Day-Timer®, Swingline®, Kensington®, Quartet®, GBC®, and in Europe Rexel®, NOBO®, and Derwent®, amongst others.