OUR SUSTAINABILITY MISSION
Fellowes Team S.E.E.D. (Sustainability, Education, Empowerment, Duty) enhances the sustainability of our products, packaging, facilities, and operations through the education of our employees, customers, and suppliers.
Our goal is to break down barriers to progress and empower our employees and suppliers to make environmentally preferable choices whenever possible.
We are driven by an indomitable ethic to do what is right for our business, our customers, and our planet, now, and for generations to come.
To view our Sustainability Policy, please click here.
BANKERS BOX
We use recycled/recyclable materials whenever possible:
- Water and/or vegetable based inks, coatings, and adhesives are specified for our packaging where possible.
- SFI Certified (C0003987) corrugated materials and water based inks are used to manufacture our Records Storage products in our US operation.
- Earth Series Products contain various and increasing levels of recycled content.
- Bankers Box brand, white top product, contains 60% recycled content while the EARTH SERIES™ line contains 100% recycled content.
- Fellowes collects roughly 55,000 pounds of scrap corrugate daily and sends it out to be recycled into new products.
- Plastic bands that were previously considered garbage and ended up in a landfill are now chopped into 2 inch strips with special cutting equipment. These strips are sold to a plastics recycling company. Many tons of plastic have been removed from the waste stream allowing it to be repurposed.
- Bankers Box R-Kive carton stacking pattern has been reconfigured resulting in a 25% increase in the amount of cartons that will fit into a standard 53’ trailer.
- Our annual savings from using recycled materials:
- 108,088 tons of Wood (747,702 trees)
- 298 billion BTUs (enough energy to power 3,277 homes/year)
- 96,001,169 lbs. of CO2 (exhaust from 8,717 cars)
- 43,579,757 lbs. of Solid Waste (1,556 garbage truck loads)
- 297,730,436 Gallons of Waste Water (451 Olympic size swimming pools)
- 137,356 lbs. of VOC - Volatile Organic Compounds
Source: Environmental impact estimates were made using the Environmental Defense Fund Paper Calculator. For more information, visit: www.papercalculator.org.