- ‘Green’ your workplace: ask and encourage your employer to purchase environmentally friendly products, as well as products with reduced packaging and, as much as possible, procured from local sources.
- Pack a lunch: save money and avoid unnecessary waste from disposable plates and utensils that typically accompany take-out lunches.
- Consider the environment before printing that e-mail! Question the need to print a ‘hard copy’ of documents – rather than keeping a binder of e-mails or reports for your records, consider backing them up on an external hard-drive thereby saving both space in office and countless pieces of paper. Furthermore, always print duplex with very limited exceptions (i.e. formal correspondence).
- Turn off before exiting! Switch off all lights before leaving a room, and shut down your computer if you’re going to be away from it for more than half an hour.
- Stick to the classic cup of coffee: re-think the necessity of drinking individually-packaged, one-cup beverages delivered in the form of pods. Reduce waste in the office by simply brewing a pot of coffee to be shared by all throughout the day!
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