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Work for your environment as well as for your employer. Take your environmental etiquette with you to work.
• Use the stairs instead of the elevator for short trips. You’ll save electricity and get some exercise, to boot!
• Help save energy by turning off lights and computer equipment at night. Turning off idle equipment can save up to $100 per work station over a year.
• Remove excess lighting and move desks near windows for natural daylight and reduce the amount of lighting required.
• Do not use toilets as garbage cans to dispose of cigarette butts, paper tissues and other items.
• Produce double-sided documents and photocopies. Keep a recycling bin near the photocopier for copies that are no good for reusing.
• Reuse shredded paper as packing material.
• Reduce paper usage by using electronic mail, telephone or meeting.
• Try to have items that no longer work repaired, rather than discarding and replacing them.
• Bring your lunch to work in reusable containers and take home recyclables and compostables if collection facilities don’t exist at the office.
• Collect paper that has previously been used on one side and re-use it for such things as fax messages, draft documents and notepads.
• Pass items you no longer need on to co-workers who can make use of them, rather than automatically throwing them out.
• Save and re-use such items as binders, file folders, envelopes, cerlox bindings, paper clips, elastics, etc.
• If your workplace does not have car pools, volunteer to organize one.
• Use your own re-usable coffee cup, rather than a disposable cup.
• Keep a few plants around your work space. Not only do they make the area more attractive, they will help provide a positive atmosphere to your work space.
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