Ideas to Green Your Office

Education

• Educate customers on the benefits of printing double sided.
• Educate your customers on being green.
• Share your green policy with your clients.
• Keep track of all of your initiatives and show your staff what impact your green changes have made.
• Participate in local tree planting and tell your customers and the community how many trees your company planted and how many sheets of pare that equates too.

Delivery Services

• Look at vehicles that use less fuel or can use alternative fuels.
• Consider a bicycle courier for downtown locations.

Purchasing

• Buy pens and pencils that are made of recycled paper, wood or biodegradable plastic.
• Refill ink Cartridges.
• Look for paper products (paper towel/napkins/toilet paper) that are recycled or tree free.
• When renovating, consider low flush toilets and reduced flow taps.

Recycling

• Donate computers, phones (landline and cells) to community associations, third world countries or schools instead of throwing them out.
• Investigate local recycling services, even consider joining one.
• Buy recycled products.

Office Administration

• Consider abandoning disposable cups for reusable ones.
• Ever had to throw an order out that was not up to your standards? Consider reusing the paper in your fax or copier for internal communication.
• Remove your business from unwanted fax and direct mail marketing programs.
• Turn off machinery and lights at night.
• Ask your cleaning service to switch to environmentally friendly cleaning products.
• When securing a new location look for the proximity to public transportation, bicycle parking.
• Multi location facilities can consider web meetings or conference calls.
• Acquire chain of custody certification such as FSC, that track certified material from the forest to the consumer, including all successive stages of processing, transformation, manufacturing and distribution (including printing).