Environmental Action:

OfficeMax A3 & A4 Carbon Neutral Multipurpose Copy Paper is certified as carbon neutral by the Carbon Reduction Institute (CRI) under the NoCO2 Program.  OfficeMax New Zealand undertook the following process:

1. Commissioned a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) audit from CRI to measure the carbon footprint of their products; OfficeMax A3 & A4 Carbon Neutral Multipurpose Copy Paper. The emissions assessed include emissions generated from the raw materials, energy used in production, storage and transportation, packaging and end of life disposal. CRI’s LCA methodology follows the standards outlined by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard (1), as well as the series of international standards for LCAs: ISO 14040 and ISO 14044.  CRI’s assessment relied upon site-specific data from the mill, OfficeMax New Zealand operations, as well as published sources of relevant data and emissions factors.
2. OfficeMax New Zealand has committed to offset the unavoidable emissions associated with the OfficeMax A3 & A4 Carbon Neutral Multipurpose Copy Paper through the purchase of units in approved projects under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), and
3. OfficeMax New Zealand has committed to ongoing auditing of their product emissions by reporting unit sales of OfficeMax A3 & A4 Carbon Neutral Multipurpose Copy Paper to CRI on a quarterly basis.