Retailer recognised for outstanding achievements in sustainability-focused operations. 

 

Officeworks’ commitment to environmental issues has been recognised by the Banksia Foundation’s 33rd National Banksia Sustainability Awards.

 

Officeworks was presented with the Large Business Transformation Award category at a recent ceremony in Melbourne. 

 

The award recognises Officeworks’ actions to create positive change by reducing carbon emissions and waste generation across its entire supply chain, promoting and supporting equal opportunities, and accelerating its own business and the broader retail industry toward net zero and a more circular economy. 

 

Officeworks launched its Positive Difference Plan in 2015 as its first integrated long-term ESG strategy, drawing in its many sustainability initiatives to set measurable goals and focus on the areas where it could make a difference, transforming the business. 

 

In 2020, Officeworks launched its current People and Planet Positive 2025 plan, highlighting 18 commitments with a framework informed by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), of which nine directly address climate change and work towards a circular economy.

 

Officeworks said “significant progress” is being made on all of these commitments, which include: 

Since 2015, Officeworks has reduced the environmental impact of its operations including reducing carbon emissions by 32 per cent, diverting 1474 tonnes of unwanted products from landfill, recycling 91 per cent of its operational waste and launching its Greener Choices range to help customers shop more sustainably.