Getting rid of disposable cutlery in the workplace
Discontinuing single use plastic utensils can save a workplace several thousands of dollars annually. In 2010, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's Green Team gave all their employees a cloth napkin and set of stainless steel utensils and removed all plastic flatware from their facility.
How can companies contribute to a more circular use of electronics?
What's the problem with e-waste? Electronic devices are packed with a slew of chemicals and elements. Most cell phones contain over 500 components; a typical phone contains over 40% alloyed metals and 17 rare earth elements (most of which are non-recyclable).
5 Team Building Ideas To Move Towards A Circular Economy
What is the circular economy? It is exactly as simple as it sounds - a waste minimizing economy model that reduces pollution by maximizing the life cycle of products and keeping the materials in use. Essentially, it is the reduce, reuse, and recycle mantra taken out of household waste management and applied to business - don't introduce new waste or materials until necessary, don't throw out what still has life left in it, and eliminate responsibly the items that are no longer usable.
3 Tips to Make Your Office Cafeteria More Sustainable
Taking care of the planet is a responsibility that all people share. For those that are looking to make a difference, finding ways to improve sustainability and be greener can be very beneficial.
How To Make Your Office More Sustainable
Those with a desire to make the world a better place will often look for ways to be greener while they are at home. While these efforts are important, you should also look for ways to make your workplace greener as well.
6 Tips for a World-Class Recycling Competition
Competitions that encourage work-teams to accomplish great things together, while establishing deeper community ties, is a wonderful way for businesses to engage with their workforce and the community, and to promote business values related to environmental stewardship and social responsibility. Recycling competitions offer a wide variety of possibilities.
How You Can Go Green While Improving Team Building at Work
Due to continued environmental challenges facing the entire world, all people have a responsibility to try and be as green as possible. For those that work in an office, encouraging co-workers and employees to focus on the environment is also a good idea.
How Creative Company Culture Can Follow Increasing Global Waste Restrictions
China notified the World Trade Organization that starting December 31, 2017, they would no longer allow the import of several types of unsorted paper waste, textile scraps, many types of post-consumer plastics, and metal slag and dross that contained vanadium. $6.
How To Start A Zero Waste Office Program
More and more businesses are beginning to seriously look at reducing the waste that they generate on a daily, monthly, and yearly basis. Not all of these companies are considering this strictly for environmental purposes, though that’s certainly at least part of the motivation for some.
Green Team Building For A Healthier Work Force
The past decade has witnessed the explosive growth of Team Building in most corporate environments across the nation. Not only does it help form one like-minded and cohesive team of workers, but it also serves to allow the crossing of departmental lines, enabling everyone to work together as a whole.
