RBS is doing the following:

  • use 100% recycled copy paper
  • encourage "think before you print!"
  • default the printers to double sided printing
  • power down equipment nightly
  • internal bulletin board for buying and selling items
  • donate unwanted items to schools and charities
  • filter water - stop ordering plastic water bottles
  • use rechargeable batteries when possible
  • reuse office supplies, furniture, and equipment when possible
  • recycling containers at all work stations and in common staff areas
  • ongoing emails with tips sent

Green Suits Us

Sustainability is important to all members of Richards Buell Sutton.  We recognize that the operation of our law office has an impact on the environment and that we make conscious daily choices in the performance of our work that can reduce or increase awareness of that impact.


As a firm we seek to REDUCE that impact through:

  1. Education - educate all lawyers and staff on sustainability matters.
  2. Sustainability Team - meet regularly to evaluate current practices, make recommendations, determine priorities, educate/motivate and report on progress.
  3. Purchasing - consider SUSTAINABILITY in purchase of supplies equipment and services (i.e. recyclability, biodegradability, recycled content, waste minimization, hazardous chemical free, energy conservation, resource conservation, locally made and organic companies).
  4. Waste Reduction and Recycling - minimize use of paper in data storage, printing and copying, internal and external communications and mailing. Implement systems to minimize disposal, reuse equipment and supplies, maximize recycling of all items that can be recycled.
  5. Energy - encourage energy conservation and efficiency in heating, cooling, eco friendly lighting and equipment use.
  6. Travel - reduce business travel where possible.
  7. Commuting - establish commute incentives to encourage use of transit, carpooling and bikes.
  8. Tenant Improvements - when tenant improvements are made to the building, the firm considers the least hazardous and most natural materials and give preference to those that are environmentally safe, eco friendly, high in recycled content, recyclable or biodegradable, certified sustainable and durable.