Tell (GOP loving) OfficeMax to stop destroying Southern forests!

[Lorien]

Tell OfficeMax to stop destroying Southern forests
Target: Sam Duncan, CEO, Office Max
Sponsor: Dogwood Alliance



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.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/582531518?z00m=81495&z00m=81495<l=1145657244

[SlipperySlope]

1. I'd rather the Chinese chop down their forests

We can just purchase our paper from the, and let our forests grow.

[Lorien]

2. I'd rather use recycled paper products myself

and leave forests all over the planet largely intact.

[Lorien]

3. Or hemp products, but most politicians don't have the political will

to lift the ban on hemp farming in this country.

[Lorien]

4. Kick

[Land Shark]

5. that reminds me, i have some items to return to OfficeMaxe for a refund