Kinko's Rises Closer to the Top

The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has hailed Kinko’s new forest-based product procurement policy as one of the most effective and meaningful company policies to protect endangered forests and end old growth destruction. Kinko’s developed the new policy – which establishes stringent vendor requirements and recycled content standards – with input from prominent environmental groups and suppliers, including RAN and International Paper. Six years ago, Kinko’s announced it would not knowingly purchase paper or wood products derived from old-growth, endangered or high-conservation value forests. Their new policy expands on this initiative. Kinko’s new vendor requirements are believed to be the first time a company has: * incorporated firm guidelines for the forest management practices of its suppliers and * engaged its vendors and the environmental community to ensure the company does not align with suppliers that log or distribute products from old growth or endangered forests, convert native forests to tree plantations, or use genetically modified organisms. Suppliers must also guarantee and document that none of their supply sources or operations result in the logging of old growth or endangered forests. Kinko’s long-term goal is to increase the average percentage of post-consumer recycled content paper it uses to 30% with goals […]

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