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Lyreco Corporate Social Responsibility

Sustainability and responsibility at the core of customer excellence

Workplaces can concretely contribute to tackle main environmental & societal challenges.

Delivering excellence is not only about products and services. It is about ensuring that every step we make to satisfy our customers are achieved in the most sustainable way:

  • Providing sustainably-preferred products and solutions for all working environments
  • Ensuring ethics and compliance in all the countries where our suppliers, manufacturers and partners operate,
  • Minimising packaging,
  • Developing sustainable process from ordering to delivery to product end-of-life,
  • Providing employee excellence wherever we operate,
  • Supporting education in the poorest countries.
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Our new sustainability strategy covers involves all our activities and their impact on the planet and its people. We also commit to communicate transparently on our progress. 

Lyreco CSR Strategy
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Our results

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-28,11%

CO2 emissions since 2010

Our teams work towards a common purpose: acting responsibly to minimise Lyreco’s environmental impacts accross the entire value chain, from our suppliers to our customers.

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42,2%

of our sales made by green products in 2020

The Sustainable by Lyreco pictogram supports our customers in selecting green alternatives to reduce their environmental footprint in the workplace. 

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factories audited in 2020
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Lyreco supports the UN Global Compact & UN SDGs Sustainable Development Goals

In 2004, Lyreco was the first company in the Office Supplies industry to join the UN Global Compact (UNGC), demonstrating our long-term commitment to sustainability. By supporting this global initiative, we commit to communicating annually our progress in implementing the UNGC Ten Principles and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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We, at Lyreco, truly believe that the Circular Economy is the best way to achieve responsible growth. By converting our business to the Circular Economy by 2025, we are taking a decisive step on the path to conciliate even further our performance objectives with our sustainability commitments.

Gregory Lienard

CEO of Lyreco Group

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Transparency of product environmental impacts: supporting the EU PEF methodology

Lyreco is supporting the efforts of the European Commission by adopting the EU Product Environmental Footprint (EU PEF) methodology to evaluate the environmental footprint of products. This new comparative method takes into account each step of the product life cycle, from the manufacture of raw materials to the end of product life and 16 environmental criteria.

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A new 2020 Climate Policy

In 2020, Lyreco defines its new Climate Policy, setting new CO2 reduction targets based on the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) methodology. The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is a joined initiative by CDP, the UN Global Compact, the World Resources Institute and WWF. A pilot will be launched by the end of 2020, led by Lyreco's Scandinavia team.
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New packaging policy at Lyreco

Through the Lyreco Circular Economy pledge, we commit to reducing packaging use and ban non-recyclable plastic packaging for any product by 2025. Our Responsible Packaging Policy defines the actions to be developed across the whole organization and activities and in all subsidiaries to reach this goal.
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Low emission urban delivery

Lyreco is committed to finding ways to reduce our impact on the environment while increasing our ability to offer excellence in service to our customers. In London, Paris, Bern and Zurich, we are testing and developing low-carbon deliveries to help major urban centres tackle the challenge of reducing CO2 emissions and air pollution.