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Tell OfficeMax to stop destroying Southern forests

The Southern forest region of the U.S. contains some of the most biologically rich ecosystems in North America. It is home to hundreds of forest and aquatic species -- especially amphibians, reptiles, snails and trees -- that are found nowhere else on earth.

Unfortunately, the Southern U.S. is also the largest paper-producing region in the world, supplying nearly 60% of the paper in the United States.

Our Southern forests are being rapidly wiped out to meet surging demand for office copy paper and paper packaging. Unless consumers insist that such throwaway products be produced from recycled fiber instead of trees, the great forest that once cloaked the southeastern U.S. is in danger of being into turned into vast, biologically sterile pine plantations.

OfficeMax, the third largest retail office supply store in the US, endangers forests of the South by doing business with the most irresponsible logging company in the region.

OfficeMax’s two largest competitors, Staples and Office Depot, have already committed publicly to increase recycled content in the paper they sell and avoid sourcing paper from endangered forests.

Urge Office Max to follow suit. Demand that OfficeMax stop sourcing paper from endangered forests! Tell Office Max CEO Sam Duncan to make a commitment to the environment and Southern Forests.
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Dear Mr. Duncan,

Where is your commitment to the environment? It’s been two years since your competitors, Staples and Office Depot, developed paper procurement policies to avoid sourcing paper from endangered forests and increase recycled content in the paper they sell.

Yet OfficeMax continues to threaten and destroy some of the world’s most unique and vital ecosystems by doing business with irresponsible logging companies and purchasing paper from endangered forests. What’s more, paper on the shelves of OfficeMax is contributing to the destruction of endangered forests in the Southern US’s Cumberland Plateau and the Canadian Boreal – two of the most biologically diverse regions on Earth.

I call on your company to:

•Stop sourcing paper from endangered forests, including endangered forests of the Southern US and the Canadian Boreal.

•Match the standard 30% industry average post-consumer recycled content for all paper grades that OfficeMax sells.

•Phase out all sales of 100% virgin paper.

•Stop purchasing paper from suppliers that convert natural forests to industrial pine plantations.

•Develop and implement environmental paper policies, and reduce overall paper use in internal company operations.

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