Think Inside the Box? Absolutely!

Every week I troll for inspiration and leads for greening our offices.  This week, I am doubly excited to tell you about Pratt Industries.  Pratt sells cardboard boxes, nine million a day and all of them 100% recycled.  They also sell a lot of other things from office supplies and paper to office furniture, janitorial supplies, telephones, cameras and computers plus about 50,000 other things.  Check out their offerings here.

What’s so great about Pratt is their commitment to sustainability.  It starts with their mission and priorities statement published prominently on their homepage: to be the best vertically-integrated paper, packaging, and resource recovery company in the Western hemisphere. In their list of top five priorities:  invest in clean energy and green solutions.    Click on the Sustainability tab on the homepage and you’ll be treated to a compelling triple bottom line vision that People, Planet, and Profit = Sustainability.  Pratt Industries embraced Sustainability as a key outcome in 1987, when the UN World Commission on Environment and Development added two measurements for corporate success and longevity—People and Planet.  Pratt’s pages include an instantaneous, dynamic count of the environmental benefits they are achieving.