Businesses Can Green Their Office

1. Encourage employees to carpool to work. Consider flexible working hours or even four days ten hours. Less gas is consumed with a small number of trips to the office. Or even one day a week or a month, when employees working at home.

2. Turn off lights when you leave a room. At night, have a power to someone or turn off the printers, faxes and computers. There is some debate as to wear off computers at night. I suggest you close all electronic components.

3. Laptop computers consume less energy than desktop computers. Check the Energy Star ratings when buying a laptop.

4. The rooms are not always used as conference rooms, storage rooms, break rooms or bathrooms a motion sensor light will turn off lights when not in the room. An electricity meter is another way to limit the lighting when the room is empty.

5. Recycle, reuse, reduce. Making paper, bottles, cans and placed in separate containers in the office for recycling. If your office building is not recycled, the application of the management company office to install a process to initiate recycling.

6. His office can get paper, envelopes, folders and notebooks are made from recycled paper. You can find in any major office supply companies.

7. Keep your air conditioning and change filters monthly. Your team will be more efficient, therefore, will use less electricity. Install programmable thermostats. The temperature can change when the employee is out of the office.

8. For the rest rooms, coffee / tea corner, or rooms, switching to biodegradable food bags and tableware garbage service. plastic tableware and Styrofoam is made from petroleum products. tableware biodegradable food service is made from renewable resources like sugar cane. These items will biodegrade between 50 and 180 days. Styrofoam does not decompose.