The nice people at the British Environment Partnership came by last year and pointed out a few simple low or zero cost things we could do in our bid to help the environment. Things like, setting IT equipment to energy saving mode, installing LED spotlights and light sensors, replacing the water cooler with a water filter and glamorous stuff like installing cistern volume reducers in the loos. Plus, of course, recycling our waste.
In order to cut down on the amount of paper we consume, we now use old print-outs as notepaper, print all our documents double-sided (or even 4 up) or better still, don’t print things out at all!
Hence, the redundant waste paper bins.
All-in-all we’ve made £2,300 in bottom line savings and saved over a tonne of waste per year from being put into landfill.
For information about how the BEP can help you, visit: www.thebep.org.uk.
