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A man of principle TOBY ROBINS has been extoling the virtues of environmentally sustainable office supplies for 30 years. He has some strong advice for dealers on the need to push the agenda for the sake of the planet – and their bottom line
B
ing Crosby’s standard White Christmas will, no doubt, be on
However, there have been warnings about climate
heavy rotation in retailers across
change for more than 30 years, and exhortations to use
the nation currently, but it has only
more sustainable products for just as long. In the office
happened on four occasions in the
supplies sector, Toby Robins was one of the first to do
past 50 years in the UK, according to the Met Office. With the effects of climate change, it is likely that white Christmases will be even more infrequent in the future,
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so dreaming of them is all we will be doing.
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so when he set up Greenworld Supplies in July 1989. “It was down to a personal belief that something was happening to the environment,” he says. “Things
