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Environment-friendly practices in the office
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| woscar |
Everyone at the office has been asked to come up with environment-friendly practices to put in place which will be a part of our performance appraisal this year.
So far I came up with a few obvious ones like using separate bins for garbage and take it to a recycling plant, and recycling paper by printing on the blank side of used documents when they are not very important.
Any other ideas or things that are being done in your offices? |
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| Xan_2v2 |
| computers go on standby automatically |
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| Ek0nomik |
| quote: | Originally posted by Xan_2v2
computers go on standby automatically |
still uses quite a bit of energy. shutting down your computer is the best way to save $$$.
city hall in boston implemented a piece of software that automatically shut down employees computers at night, and they realized savings in the thousands.
report leaking water in the bathroom.
carpool / public transportation / other to work.
put a plant on your desk.
if you bring your lunch to work, reuse plastic baggies. they are really easy to wash.
don't buy bottled water, because people who do are idiots. (assuming you have access to safe tap water).
recycle batteries / old computer parts.
im out of ideas atm. |
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| jonSun |
replace toilet paper with a personal rag or small towel.
recycle aluminium |
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| trunks1022 |
| having ceramic mugs instead of using paper cups for coffee, etc |
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| Sunsnail |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ek0nomik
put a plant on your desk.
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Excuse me? |
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| DJ Mikey Mike |
Default any printers with a duplex unit to double-sided printing.
Recycling seems to have been mentioned many times already, but don't forget about recycling toner cartridges too. |
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| Elec |
| Stop printing every in thing... |
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| Alex |
None.
My office is unbelievably inefficient and wasteful. It comes with the territory when it's an airline I suppose.
We print everything, several times. I beg my bosses to let me just e-mail stuff but they insist on everything being printed out. We go through about 6 huge boxes of paper per day printing out that doesn't need to be printed. Not to mention I've caught people just dumping blank white paper into the garbage for no apparent reason.
ing offices, no ing sense. |
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| smellyblack |
| i once did coke with alex and santa claus in the middle of july.:tongue3 |
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| Alex |
| quote: | Originally posted by smellyblack
i once did coke with alex and santa claus in the middle of july.:tongue3 |
Is that you Shara's sister? |
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| smellyblack |
| 250lbs less and we have a deal! |
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