How to be Eco-friendly at Work

Going green isn’t something that should be limited to your personal time. You can apply sustainability practices to every aspect of your life and everywhere you go, including the workplace. 

No matter what kind of job you have, there’s always something that can be improved on to make your office a little more eco-friendly. With climate change and global warming creating such a stir, we should all provide a helping hand by making some simple and small changes in our daily lifestyles to be more environmentally conscious both at home and at the office. 

Let’s take a look at these easy and practical ways to make your workplace green. 

Initiate an Office Coffee Recycling Program 

Anyone who works in an office knows that the one thing that nearly everybody can agree upon is an appreciation for coffee. It gets people motivated, socializing, and energized — coffee is something that’s consumed a lot. However, what a lot of people don’t realize is that coffee produces an enormous amount of waste in landfill sites. In fact, 55 million single-serve coffee pods alone are sent to landfill sites every day. 

Your office needs a recycling and composting system. Work with a coffee delivery service such as GoJava — they provide coffee and snacks to offices, as well as a customized recycling program. They’ll pick up your used single-serve coffee pods and whole bean filters and then recycle and compost the leftover plastic and coffee grounds. 

Be Aware of Your Printing Practices 

Use the double-sided printing option that comes with many of today’s printers to avoid wasting paper. If there is a fax machine in your office, learn how to do so electronically. 

Invest in an Adobe Cloud subscription so that the office can practice editing techniques for internal and external documents electronically using Acrobat Reader and other Adobe programs, instead of printing thousands of pages each year. 

Change Your Commute 

Public transportation isn’t everyone’s favourite way to get to work, but it’s not as bad as you may think. It cuts back on gas and in the long term, it saves you money. 

If you don’t live too far away from your job, consider walking to work when the weather is nice. Walking to work isn’t just beneficial to the environment — you’ll also get a fantastic daily workout! 

Bring a Reusable Water Bottle to Work

Buy yourself a reusable water bottle to avoid using plastic bottles. All of that plastic waste is incredibly bad for the environment — plastic takes up to 1000 years to decompose! That means it just sits there, emanating toxic fumes into the atmosphere. 

You’ll also save money by bringing your own reusable water bottle to work, as you won’t need to spend a few bucks every day on a plastic one.

Going green at the office is just as important as it is at home. Speak with your office manager about how your office can implement sustainable changes in its practices.

from Feedster https://www.feedster.com/at-work/how-to-be-eco-friendly-at-work/