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We recognize the environmental impact our company can have on the world’s woodlands by working with suppliers that adhere to set standards of forest management and tree species selection.
To help protect endangered forests and support efforts to preserve timber for future generations, we first issued our Wood Purchasing Policy in 1999.
Since then, we have continued to update this policy, and have worked to lead our suppliers to understanding and practicing sustainable forestry throughout the world.
We know that responsible forest management is essential to protecting the health of our ecosystems, critical biodiversity and the more than one billion people who depend on forests for their livelihoods.
The goal of our sustainable forestry efforts is to ensure timber and healthy forests remain available for future generations.
We are proud of our ability to create positive change by encouraging sustainable forestry practices.
We strive to better understand the social and economic effects that wood purchases have around the world, especially in regions with endangered forests.
Over the years, we have focused our efforts to ensure the protection of forests at highest risk.
While we sell less than cut worldwide, we believe our efforts have had an outsized impact on the industry.
We believe that through our ongoing work with suppliers to sustainably manage forests and the commitments listed in our Wood Purchasing Policy, we have helped to expand forest land coverage in North America.
Through the sharing of best practices with suppliers and ongoing engagement with stakeholders, we seek to build upon the progress we’ve made to protect the world’s forests.
The positive impact of our work with suppliers can be seen in our results.
We also source lumber from a number of the largest forestry companies in North America, which work with sustainable forest management organizations like Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Sustainable Forest Initiative (SFI), Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC), and American Tree Farm to ensure their trees are being sourced sustainably.
Suppliers of ours like Mendocino Redwood Company (MRC ) and Humboldt Redwood Company (HRC™) seek to be examples of forest restoration and show how private forest management can protect and restore the ecological attributes of the forest, and whose forestlands are certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) as being well-managed forests.
While we are proud of the progress we have made to promote sustainable forestry, we continue to assess opportunities to drive progress in this area.
We strive to create transparency in how global forest resources are used in our products.
We continually work with stakeholders to promote sustainable forestry around the globe.
Understanding the world’s forest coverage by country helps guide our supply chain decisions.
Seventeen percent of the world’s forests are in Canada and the United States, according to research by the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization.
The U.N.’s that more than half of the world’s forest coverage is in five countries: Russia (20%), Brazil (12%), Canada (9%), the U.S. (8%) and China (5%).
Give preference to the purchase of wood and wood products originating from certified, well-managed forests wherever feasible.
• Eliminate the purchase of wood and wood products from forest regions identified as endangered.
• Practice and promote the efficient and responsible use of wood and wood products.
Promote and support the development and use of alternative environmental products.
• Demand that our vendors and their suppliers of wood and wood products maintain compliance with laws and regulations pertaining to their operations and the products they manufacture.
We continue to look for ways to help our customers reduce their environmental impact through the projects they take on.
Building on the progress we’ve made with our Eco Options program, in April program, which provides our customers with the resources they need to take individual action on environmental issues.
Our Eco Actions website provides customers with new content, insights and ideas from innovative partners to inspire sustainable action.
Benefits of organic gardening Eco Actions is just another way we’re helping our customers make sustainable changes for the better by helping them create greener homes.
The Home Depot’s Eco Options program continues to help our customers identify products that have less of an impact on the environment and encourages our suppliers to provide more sustainable offerings.
We launched Eco Options in partnership with SCS Global Services, a leading, independent, third-party certification body that validates environmental claims.
For a product to receive Eco Options classification, the supplier must document attributes that prove it has less of an impact on the environment than comparable products in the same category.
Until all industries create and abide by a reporting formula that measures product attributes according to a common sustainability standard, we will continue to use our Eco Options program to help customers sort through green product claims.
Our new Eco Actions website offers insights and ideas on how people can do their part in their homes and gardens to create meaningful change.
In addition to our Eco Options and Eco Actions programs, we focus our sustainable product efforts in two key areas relevant to our business: forestry and indoor air quality.
In Purchasing Policy to help avoid wood products coming from forestland with a high conservation value.
And in Strategy (see Page 46) to encourage the exclusion of certain chemicals from paint, flooring, insulation, household cleaning and paint removers.
Our chemical strategy is an important part of our commitment to offer greener products.
The Home Depot was honored with four Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Awards in 2021.
These awards reflect our commitment to sustainable business practices.
We are proud to serve as industry leaders in the design, manufacture, selection, and use of products that are safer for the environment.
Our Eco Actions website makes it easier for customers to identify products that can help reduce their households’ impact on the climate, the planet and natural resources.
Nest Leaf helps you choose an energyefficient temperature and safety alerts let you know when your house gets too hot or cold.
Laminate flooring at The Home Depot is verified by either GREENGUARD® Gold or FloorScore® for chemical safety.
– Responsible Chemistry StepAhead with Nike Grind is made from and is 100% recyclable after use.
Sustainably Since we introduced Circularity as one of our Eco Options’ pillars in focus has been to prevent products and packaging from becoming waste throughout the product lifecycle.
The foundation of Circularity comes from nature: nothing is wasted, and everything is regenerative.
We strive to offer products with a positive environmental impact, and we encourage suppliers to innovate in how they produce and package products for reuse and longevity.
products, and many have the potential to move our economy toward circularity.
We also look for opportunities within Home Depot operations to reduce, repair, reuse and recycle.
The goal is to extend our planet’s natural resources and protect land and water from the impact of material disposal.
CHECK IT OUT See how The Home Depot partners with Nike to move towards a circular future in which the very concept of waste doesn’t exist.
Nike Grind diverts shoes and material waste away from landfills and transforms them into a variety of new products, including carpet cushions and gym flooring tiles sold at The Home Depot.
The Home Depot works to help the industry change the way it thinks about materials.
We encourage supplier innovation in product and packaging design, material selection and manufacturing, as well as striving to produce products that have positive environmental impact during use.
consumer use collecting raw materials from our own waste streams, and working with our suppliers to turn them into new products.
and for our customers to extend the life of products and avoid the energy emissions from manufacturing replacements.
See how we’re recycling would-be waste into useful products over and over again.
We collect used cardboard, paper and other recyclable fibers and send them to Pratt.
Pratt separates and compresses the fibers at a materials recovery facility.
The next stop is a paper mill, where fibers are cleaned and pressed into strong, flexible paper.
At a corrugating plant, layers of paper are crimped and glued together to create sheets of cardboard.
facility, cardboard sheets are cut into boxes printed with our logo.
through our supply chain to stock stores and fulfill online orders.
Customers purchase millions of our THD-branded moving boxes every year.
Our operations and our customers provide used boxes for recycling, and the process begins again.
The Home Depot vinyl flooring suppliers are setting the pace for change in this category with efforts to continually improve the chemical profile of their products.
Laminate Flooring Laminate flooring in Home Depot stores is verified by either GREENGUARD Gold or FloorScore® certification to contain which is a stricter standard than CARB 2 of 0.05 ppm.
At The Home Depot, we recognize the opportunity we have for the environmental impact of our organization, and that our biggest impact is the products we sell.
In partnership with stakeholders throughout the supply chain, we are committed to offering products that are safer for the environment and our customers.
With our encouragement, our suppliers have been investing in developing environmentally innovative products.
We and many of our suppliers also partner with respected third-party certification organizations and environmental non-profits that guide the home improvement industry toward safer chemical ingredient use.
The Home Depot is committed to continuing the drive toward minimizing the environmental impact of the products we sell.
OUR COMMITMENT We’re addressing chemicals of concerns in our products and providing transparency into our approach in our regularly updated Chemical Strategy.
Carpet The Home Depot’s carpet suppliers have been at the forefront of the industrywide removal of chemicals of concern and the exploration of safer alternatives.
All indoor wall-to-wall carpet sold through The Home Depot U.S. and Canada has a third-party verification of transparency through DECLARE® Label or Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), or certification of material health through Cradle to Cradle™ Products Innovation Institute or CRI Green Label Plus®.
The Home Depot will evaluate this strategy annually to ensure our approach, goals and disclosure are appropriate and meet the needs of our stakeholders.
Responsible Chemistry Our fiberglass insulation suppliers have persistently challenged themselves to remove certain chemicals of concern from their products over the last decade.
Our paint suppliers have taken efforts over the last ten years to evolve their paints and offer products that help maintain air quality.
In our U.S. stores, all Behr® interior paints, Glidden® Premium, Glidden Diamond™ and PPG® Timeless® interior paints are GREENGUARD Gold certified.
Paint-tinting Colorants: In transitioned our paint-tinting colorants in our U.S. and Canada stores from solvent-based formulation to a waterbased, low-VOC and ethylene-glycol-free formulation.
Volatile Organic Compounds: All of our interior and exterior latex water-based wall paints in our U.S. and Canada stores are zero or low VOC.
Removing paints and varnishes safely and efficiently is an important step in many home improvement painting and staining projects.
Methylene chloride has historically been the most effective product option in this category.
Note: Colorants added to base paints may increase VOC level, depending on color choice.
Organic gardening has grown from niche to mainstream, and The Home Depot has expanded its organic gardening products to offer multiple brands of soils, fertilizers, and weed and pest control products to meet our customers’ changing needs.
The Home Depot continues to work with suppliers to improve products that impact indoor air quality.
The Home Depot is committed to working with suppliers and the EPA to identify alternatives with comparable efficacy.
The Home Depot phased out methylene chloride and N-methylremoval products at the end of 2018.
We expanded the program in our U.S. stores and have committed to continue to expand our organics assortment.
We also committed at the end of to no longer treat plants in our garden centers with neonicotinoids, except where mandated by state law.
Sustainably The Home Depot encourages suppliers to make the products we sell more energy efficient, and our partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star® program supports those efforts, too.
In on utility bills through the purchase and proper use of energy-efficient products.
Energy Star-labeled products were key to that progress.
In offered over 22,000 energy-saving products in stores and online, including more than 15,000 Energy Star products.
We sold more than million units of Energy Star products.
We estimate our customers’ purchases of Energy Star products in electricity use by 7 billion kilowatt hours, saving $950 million on energy costs and lowering carbon emissions by 4.9 million metric tons.
DID YOU KNOW The Home Depot U.S. is a award winner and our Canadian stores were recognized for the eighth year in a row as the ENERGY STAR Canada Retailer of the Year in 2021.
Energy Star-labeled clothes dryers use 20% less electricity.
If all clothes dryers sold in the U.S. were Energy Star certified, Americans could collectively save more than $year in utility costs and prevent greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those from more than 2 million vehicles.

We recognize the environmental impact our company can have on the world’s woodlands by working with suppliers that adhere to set standards of forest management and tree species selection.

To help protect endangered forests and support efforts to preserve timber for future generations, we first issued our Wood Purchasing Policy in 1999.

Since then, we have continued to update this policy, and have worked to lead our suppliers to understanding and practicing sustainable forestry throughout the world.

We know that responsible forest management is essential to protecting the health of our ecosystems, critical biodiversity and the more than one billion people who depend on forests for their livelihoods.

The goal of our sustainable forestry efforts is to ensure timber and healthy forests remain available for future generations.

We are proud of our ability to create positive change by encouraging sustainable forestry practices.

We strive to better understand the social and economic effects that wood purchases have around the world, especially in regions with endangered forests.

Over the years, we have focused our efforts to ensure the protection of forests at highest risk.

While we sell less than cut worldwide, we believe our efforts have had an outsized impact on the industry.

We believe that through our ongoing work with suppliers to sustainably manage forests and the commitments listed in our Wood Purchasing Policy, we have helped to expand forest land coverage in North America.

Through the sharing of best practices with suppliers and ongoing engagement with stakeholders, we seek to build upon the progress we’ve made to protect the world’s forests.

The positive impact of our work with suppliers can be seen in our results.

We also source lumber from a number of the largest forestry companies in North America, which work with sustainable forest management organizations like Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Sustainable Forest Initiative (SFI), Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC), and American Tree Farm to ensure their trees are being sourced sustainably.

Suppliers of ours like Mendocino Redwood Company (MRC ) and Humboldt Redwood Company (HRC™) seek to be examples of forest restoration and show how private forest management can protect and restore the ecological attributes of the forest, and whose forestlands are certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) as being well-managed forests.

While we are proud of the progress we have made to promote sustainable forestry, we continue to assess opportunities to drive progress in this area.

We strive to create transparency in how global forest resources are used in our products.

We continually work with stakeholders to promote sustainable forestry around the globe.

Understanding the world’s forest coverage by country helps guide our supply chain decisions.

Seventeen percent of the world’s forests are in Canada and the United States, according to research by the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization.

The U.N.’s that more than half of the world’s forest coverage is in five countries: Russia (20%), Brazil (12%), Canada (9%), the U.S. (8%) and China (5%).

Give preference to the purchase of wood and wood products originating from certified, well-managed forests wherever feasible.

• Eliminate the purchase of wood and wood products from forest regions identified as endangered.

• Practice and promote the efficient and responsible use of wood and wood products.

Promote and support the development and use of alternative environmental products.

• Demand that our vendors and their suppliers of wood and wood products maintain compliance with laws and regulations pertaining to their operations and the products they manufacture.

We continue to look for ways to help our customers reduce their environmental impact through the projects they take on.

Building on the progress we’ve made with our Eco Options program, in April program, which provides our customers with the resources they need to take individual action on environmental issues.

Our Eco Actions website provides customers with new content, insights and ideas from innovative partners to inspire sustainable action.

Benefits of organic gardening Eco Actions is just another way we’re helping our customers make sustainable changes for the better by helping them create greener homes.

The Home Depot’s Eco Options program continues to help our customers identify products that have less of an impact on the environment and encourages our suppliers to provide more sustainable offerings.

We launched Eco Options in partnership with SCS Global Services, a leading, independent, third-party certification body that validates environmental claims.

For a product to receive Eco Options classification, the supplier must document attributes that prove it has less of an impact on the environment than comparable products in the same category.

Until all industries create and abide by a reporting formula that measures product attributes according to a common sustainability standard, we will continue to use our Eco Options program to help customers sort through green product claims.

Our new Eco Actions website offers insights and ideas on how people can do their part in their homes and gardens to create meaningful change.

In addition to our Eco Options and Eco Actions programs, we focus our sustainable product efforts in two key areas relevant to our business: forestry and indoor air quality.

In Purchasing Policy to help avoid wood products coming from forestland with a high conservation value.

And in Strategy (see Page 46) to encourage the exclusion of certain chemicals from paint, flooring, insulation, household cleaning and paint removers.

Our chemical strategy is an important part of our commitment to offer greener products.

The Home Depot was honored with four Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Awards in 2021.

These awards reflect our commitment to sustainable business practices.

We are proud to serve as industry leaders in the design, manufacture, selection, and use of products that are safer for the environment.

Our Eco Actions website makes it easier for customers to identify products that can help reduce their households’ impact on the climate, the planet and natural resources.

Nest Leaf helps you choose an energyefficient temperature and safety alerts let you know when your house gets too hot or cold.

Laminate flooring at The Home Depot is verified by either GREENGUARD® Gold or FloorScore® for chemical safety.

– Responsible Chemistry StepAhead with Nike Grind is made from and is 100% recyclable after use.

Sustainably Since we introduced Circularity as one of our Eco Options’ pillars in focus has been to prevent products and packaging from becoming waste throughout the product lifecycle.

The foundation of Circularity comes from nature: nothing is wasted, and everything is regenerative.

We strive to offer products with a positive environmental impact, and we encourage suppliers to innovate in how they produce and package products for reuse and longevity.

products, and many have the potential to move our economy toward circularity.

We also look for opportunities within Home Depot operations to reduce, repair, reuse and recycle.

The goal is to extend our planet’s natural resources and protect land and water from the impact of material disposal.

CHECK IT OUT See how The Home Depot partners with Nike to move towards a circular future in which the very concept of waste doesn’t exist.

Nike Grind diverts shoes and material waste away from landfills and transforms them into a variety of new products, including carpet cushions and gym flooring tiles sold at The Home Depot.

The Home Depot works to help the industry change the way it thinks about materials.

We encourage supplier innovation in product and packaging design, material selection and manufacturing, as well as striving to produce products that have positive environmental impact during use.

consumer use collecting raw materials from our own waste streams, and working with our suppliers to turn them into new products.

and for our customers to extend the life of products and avoid the energy emissions from manufacturing replacements.

See how we’re recycling would-be waste into useful products over and over again.

We collect used cardboard, paper and other recyclable fibers and send them to Pratt.

Pratt separates and compresses the fibers at a materials recovery facility.

The next stop is a paper mill, where fibers are cleaned and pressed into strong, flexible paper.

At a corrugating plant, layers of paper are crimped and glued together to create sheets of cardboard.

facility, cardboard sheets are cut into boxes printed with our logo.

through our supply chain to stock stores and fulfill online orders.

Customers purchase millions of our THD-branded moving boxes every year.

Our operations and our customers provide used boxes for recycling, and the process begins again.

The Home Depot vinyl flooring suppliers are setting the pace for change in this category with efforts to continually improve the chemical profile of their products.

Laminate Flooring Laminate flooring in Home Depot stores is verified by either GREENGUARD Gold or FloorScore® certification to contain which is a stricter standard than CARB 2 of 0.05 ppm.

At The Home Depot, we recognize the opportunity we have for the environmental impact of our organization, and that our biggest impact is the products we sell.

In partnership with stakeholders throughout the supply chain, we are committed to offering products that are safer for the environment and our customers.

With our encouragement, our suppliers have been investing in developing environmentally innovative products.

We and many of our suppliers also partner with respected third-party certification organizations and environmental non-profits that guide the home improvement industry toward safer chemical ingredient use.

The Home Depot is committed to continuing the drive toward minimizing the environmental impact of the products we sell.

OUR COMMITMENT We’re addressing chemicals of concerns in our products and providing transparency into our approach in our regularly updated Chemical Strategy.

Carpet The Home Depot’s carpet suppliers have been at the forefront of the industrywide removal of chemicals of concern and the exploration of safer alternatives.

All indoor wall-to-wall carpet sold through The Home Depot U.S. and Canada has a third-party verification of transparency through DECLARE® Label or Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), or certification of material health through Cradle to Cradle™ Products Innovation Institute or CRI Green Label Plus®.

The Home Depot will evaluate this strategy annually to ensure our approach, goals and disclosure are appropriate and meet the needs of our stakeholders.

Responsible Chemistry Our fiberglass insulation suppliers have persistently challenged themselves to remove certain chemicals of concern from their products over the last decade.

Our paint suppliers have taken efforts over the last ten years to evolve their paints and offer products that help maintain air quality.

In our U.S. stores, all Behr® interior paints, Glidden® Premium, Glidden Diamond™ and PPG® Timeless® interior paints are GREENGUARD Gold certified.

Paint-tinting Colorants: In transitioned our paint-tinting colorants in our U.S. and Canada stores from solvent-based formulation to a waterbased, low-VOC and ethylene-glycol-free formulation.

Volatile Organic Compounds: All of our interior and exterior latex water-based wall paints in our U.S. and Canada stores are zero or low VOC.

Removing paints and varnishes safely and efficiently is an important step in many home improvement painting and staining projects.

Methylene chloride has historically been the most effective product option in this category.

Note: Colorants added to base paints may increase VOC level, depending on color choice.

Organic gardening has grown from niche to mainstream, and The Home Depot has expanded its organic gardening products to offer multiple brands of soils, fertilizers, and weed and pest control products to meet our customers’ changing needs.

The Home Depot continues to work with suppliers to improve products that impact indoor air quality.

The Home Depot is committed to working with suppliers and the EPA to identify alternatives with comparable efficacy.

The Home Depot phased out methylene chloride and N-methylremoval products at the end of 2018.

We expanded the program in our U.S. stores and have committed to continue to expand our organics assortment.

We also committed at the end of to no longer treat plants in our garden centers with neonicotinoids, except where mandated by state law.

Sustainably The Home Depot encourages suppliers to make the products we sell more energy efficient, and our partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star® program supports those efforts, too.

In on utility bills through the purchase and proper use of energy-efficient products.

Energy Star-labeled products were key to that progress.

In offered over 22,000 energy-saving products in stores and online, including more than 15,000 Energy Star products.

We sold more than million units of Energy Star products.

We estimate our customers’ purchases of Energy Star products in electricity use by 7 billion kilowatt hours, saving $950 million on energy costs and lowering carbon emissions by 4.9 million metric tons.

DID YOU KNOW The Home Depot U.S. is a award winner and our Canadian stores were recognized for the eighth year in a row as the ENERGY STAR Canada Retailer of the Year in 2021.

Energy Star-labeled clothes dryers use 20% less electricity.

If all clothes dryers sold in the U.S. were Energy Star certified, Americans could collectively save more than $year in utility costs and prevent greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those from more than 2 million vehicles.