This past year, Cliff Waldeck (center on the right) has transformed his company into San Francisco's only "certified green" office supply company, the only office supply retail store to be awarded the prestigious 2005 California Waste Board's Waste Reduction Awards Program Award and, perhaps, the only green office supply retail store in the United States.
Waldeck believes "the office products industry needs to follow the example of the old fashioned garbage companies who used to take all the refuse to the landfill but today recycle 60-70 percent of the waste stream." The store sells the highest recycled content, refurbished, reusable, non-toxic and energy efficient products; recycles -- both for the company and its customers -- all recyclable products, including laser/inkjet cartridges and batteries; reuses all packing material; and promotes business and products through 100 percent post consumer waste, tree-free or paperless communication.
