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Quarter 4, 2009 Contents
Greening Your Business Greening Your Business newsletter is a quarterly e-newsletter containing stories, resources and ideas for established businesses that details how you can reduce their environmental impact. This newsletter serves those looking for ways to modify corporate attitude for reducing carbon footprint – a corporate "grass-roots" movement, if you will. Visit our website at Greening YourBusiness.com to connect with other subscribers. We are always interested in new green solutions and the progress of your green business. |
Welcome to the fourth quarter edition of the Greening Your Business newsletter. Hopefully you have had some success with implementing some of the ideas from the last edition; we have gotten some great response from "Carpooling: Starting One Day a Week" This issue we will be focusing on little items that can have a big impact. We’re going to focus this issue on a small company in Sparks, Maryland who eliminated their use of paper cups -- we’ll show you how. They have formed a green committee to implement this and other green initiatives around the office. Also, we have a special feature for some unusual ways to go green in you home – and you thought you already were!
The mug makes a comeback: An accounting firm is surely good with numbers, but after an audit of the number of paper cups the company used in a week, the members of the green committee were in shock. Employing 270 people, SC&H Group is tucked away in Sparks, Maryland. The committee found that they used a whopping 1,000 paper cups a week. Not only did this take a toll on the environment, but also in the supplies budget. Click here for the full article
Cleaning up – coordinating operation green-clean with your companies cleaning crews
Think about it: every night your office cleaning crew comes through and empties every trash bin. What usually happens is that the crew simply removes the plastic bag, with waste, and replaces it with a new bag. If you work in an office with 100 people, that is 500 plastic bags a week. What about the waste in those bags. How much trash accumulates in a day? Maybe a paper cup from coffee that morning (hopefully not)? Maybe envelopes and catalogs from vendors (but I know you’re already recycling your paper)? Maybe the remnants of your lunch? Click here for the full article
A different way of thinking: It’s time to take the next step. Recycling paper and plastic is commendable, but there are many other ways we can recycle or cut energy waste in our own homes that are easy and cost effective. We all know about using rechargeable batteries and installing programmable thermostats. Here are just a few of the other things I do in my own household to be more green. Click here for the full article These Come From Trees stickers, put one at every paper towel station! Click here for the full article
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