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Sustainability In the Office
More and more these days, people are realising the urgency with which we need to adopt a more eco-friendly lifestyle. There’s an abundance of advice for changes you can make at home, but what about the workplace? How can we make our offices more sustainable going forward? Read on for some suggestions:
Turn off anything that uses electricity at the end of the day
Often you’ll walk past an office building late at night to see that lights and other electrical appliances are still running, even though it’s long past the end of the working day. By making sure everything is turned off when the last person goes home, you can not only stop wasting energy but also save money on the electricity bills! During the day, if you’re lucky enough to have good windows in your office, you can also make use of natural light and use the sun to brighten things up instead of turning the lights on.
Go paperless
In this modern age of technology, there’s very rarely a need to have physical documents. A lot of companies can get stuck in the habit of printing things out that could easily be shared as a digital file – just remember to back up your online documents regularly!
Buy recycled
Everybody knows that recycling is important. But did you know that it’s just as important to support companies selling products made from recycled products? Recycling is a business, and in order to ensure that what we put in our green bins actually stays out of landfill there needs to be a demand for recycled materials. Luckily for you – and the planet – Office Supplies Ireland has a whole page dedicated to office supplies made from recycled materials!
It’s easy to feel helpless in the face of such a massive problem as climate change, but the more people make small changes like these, the easier it becomes to take on the future together!
