The Paper Mart Commitment To Sustainability, Equality, & Giving Back
At Paper Mart, we are working towards a more equitable and positive future with our customers, partners, and communities.
“I feel strongly about the environmental impact of our products and I know many of our customers do too. It’s exciting to me to be able to offer more natural and reusable products and I’m thrilled with the response we’ve been getting. It’s motivating me and our team to continue to innovate in this area.”
-Buffy Simoni, Owner & Board Member,
Women in business Q&A: Buffy Simoni, president of Paper Mart. HuffPost.
Investing In Quality Products
As a leading voice within the packaging industry, we have a responsibility to not only protect our planet, but help encourage sustainable buying practices. Through our product offerings, we are making an effort to source items with a focus on reliable third party certifications and regenerative processing practices.
Products made of recycled content
Products printed or tinted with water-based inks or dyes
Products are certified biodegradable
Our Latest Sustainability Efforts
In our own 10-acre offices and warehouse, we are very conscious of how we're using our resources and make every effort to leverage our size and scale to accelerate everyday change.
Reduction in carbon emissions
559,223 kWh
Reduction in annual lighting usage
8,460,000 lbs
CO2 saved over the lift of our electric forklift fleet
Trees Saved
876,400 gal.
Water Saved
45,072 gal.
Oil Saved
Emphasizing Equality
When it comes to our commitment to equality, we support an environment where our team feels welcomed, valued, and respected.
“We’ve always been an inclusive, high-integrity company and we believe in equality for everyone.”
- Allison McGuire, Vice President, Marketing
With Paper Mart, Everyone Has A Voice
As we grow into the next 100 years, we are continually working on maintaining a positive company culture that empowers our team to drive engagement and collaboration.
- We focus on better understanding the culture at Paper Mart and regularly facilitate open discussions, roundtables, and surveys between leadership and our team members.
- We also encourage community involvement and support our team’s contributions throughout the year.
Charitable Giving
Over the years and especially during COVID-19, we partnered with many organizations to help provide a little relief to those in our community who are still very much in need. Paper Mart provides ongoing product donations to nonprofits within our local community.
Our customers are also encouraged to participate with our community involvement. Through our Rewards Program, members are able to redeem their points towards a monetary donation to a local food bank.
Community Partnerships
Paper Mart employees have volunteered with our local Boys & Girls Club and the Youth Center of Orange doing crafting projects together and providing product donations.
A Day of Giving hosted in 2021, offered a percentage of sales to Bracken’s Kitchen who runs a recovered food program to reclaim excess food from restaurants and food suppliers and transforms it into healthy, high-quality meals for those in need. Their Culinary Training Program helps equip students with the basic skills necessary to excel in the hospitality industry.
Visit our blog for more stories about Paper Mart’s activities in the community: https://blog.papermart.com/tag/donation/