Buying greener
Oct
07
You buy green goods for your home and you can extend that principle to the workplace. There’s little point in being green enough to recycle paper but buying paper that isn’t produced from recycled materials.
Encourage your bosses to buy from green suppliers selling green products for office necessities such as paper.
Before going out and buying new, apply the green basics of reusing, repairing, and recycling, whether you’re buying a new piece of machinery, paper, loo roll, or paint.
- Check whether the business already has something that would do the job.
- Hire what you need instead of buying new.
- Look for a version that has as much recycled material in it as possible. Go for an option with as little packaging as possible.
- Buy the most energy-efficient product you can find that will last as long as possible.
- Make sure that equipment can be serviced and repaired so that it has as long a life span as possible.
- Think about disposal issues — consider what happens when the item is used up, no longer needed, or can no longer be repaired.
Buy from local companies to reduce the number of miles goods have to be transported and therefore the amount of fuel it takes to get them to your workplace.
Word spreads in the business world and the more demand there is from companies for green products the more there are for sale and prices come down. As your firm is going greener it buys from suppliers that are going greener too and in order to get your business the green ethos will spread.
Being green means being fair to people as well as the environment so when you buy green products remember to be fair about paying your suppliers on time.
Going paperless
Back in the 1970s, there was excitement about the office of the future, where technology would improve to such an extent that no one would need to use paper. If you look around your office today you’ll probably find reams of paper waiting to be used for photocopying and printing; piles of used paper in the printers — printed off and forgotten about; a full recycling bin; shelves with files full of paper; and desks piled high with papers relating to work in hand. Internet and e-mail don’t seem to have helped reduce the paper used.
People send e-mails and then print them off so that they have a paper trail, or e-mail reports and send out hard copies. The more advanced the technology the more demand there seems to be for paper. The more people are able to exchange information, the greater demand for paper.
From a green perspective, reducing the amount of paper you use is a priority. Paper is originally produced from trees, which are a declining natural resource, and much of it goes to waste. That means not only the wood is wasted but the chemicals and energy that went into processing the paper.
More paper is being recycled than ever before but the process of recycling paper uses energy — which is saved if less paper is used. Not to mention the amount of steel saved, as you don’t need paper clips!
Even though the idea of the completely paperless office seems to be fairly unrealistic, technology allows you to greatly reduce the amount of paper you use at work. The younger you are the more comfortable you’re likely to be with reading information on your computer screen, hand-held computer, and even mobile phone. The more you use a computer, the more likely you are to edit material without printing it off and using a pen. The more you trust the technology, the less likely you are to have a paper filing system to back up your computer filing systems. Use the technology — forget the paper:
- E-mail and Internet access is a necessity, with advances in technology also enabling people and companies to combine e-mail with fax and voice-mail retrieval.
- Portable and mobile PCs, laptops, and hand-helds are great for downloading documents and reading or working on wherever you are and are just as portable as paper.
- Scanners are great for getting images onto a network or computer so that documents can be exchanged electronically and copied into reports.
- Online storage systems enable centralised electronic information management on a network that everyone in the company can access. These help replace hard-copy filing systems.
- Make sure that people have remote access to the company network so they can work from home or another remote location without taking a heap of documents home with them.
- Make the next printer one that can print on both sides of a sheet so you can reduce your paper use even further.
If you can’t go paperless, buy recycled paper from local businesses to cut down the energy used producing new paper, and save trees and fuel in transportation.
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