Greening the Office: Tips and tricks
You need not to be an environment specialist to make your office green .For every office be it a small size (0 to 10 peoples) medium size (10 to 50 peoples) or large office (beyond 50) there are very simple tips and techniques which can make your office green .
Posters: They are best methods to keep anybody remembering about what should be done. What are the priorities what is the motto to make office green ? Posters do have psychological effect on the employees and this is a slow and sure process to convert any body to desired path.
Meetings: Every week their must be a meeting regarding the measures taken to make office green. The agenda should be focused on reward on adoption of the methodologies to make office green , rather than punishment on errors. The employees must be made to collaborate regarding the process of making office green in harmony instead of mutual competitions to show how much efficient one is in maintaining the office green .
Following are the points can be adopted in making any office green .
1. Paper use must be minimized (Maximize the use of E-mails, E-books, storing the documents on compact discs). Paper use minimized, the trash is minimized.
2. The paper use in dealing with the clients can also be minimized by invoicing them electronically, making them to see your websites instead of sending them brochures, asking them to look at the online presentations or your executives should use laptops to make presentations, encouraging them to communicate to you electronically. Regarding the document verification there are various methods like signature recognition, password protection, etc.
3. To make office green you have make contributions towards energy management like switching off the electrical devices when not in use or if you can work in single lamp then avoid using the excess of lightings in the rooms. Next part in making office green by saving electricity is to ask for solar energy installations, customized wind mills etc.
4. If you can use your own handkerchief then paper napkins are not necessary. The paper glasses for water drinking can be avoided by keeping a bottle of 1 to 2 liters personally. A bottle use for one week is equivalent to about 70 paper glasses. Of course, you can install clean drinking facilities but they should be free from electricity consumption. Generally, UFM gravity flow technology in water filtration works very well, no consumption of electricity and water is as pure as mineral water. This will be a good step in making your office green.
5. Last of all is your personal energy management. If you can come to office by a tram or local transport with ease, then avoid the use of personal vehicles, or you can switch to BIO-FUELS (Ethanol, Bio-Diesel, Hydrogen, Solar etc.). If two or three employees live in same track, they can share a single car to ply from office to home. Well these are few well-known techniques for making the office green . Nevertheless, there are some hard and bitter truths that you have to keep aside like the incompatibility, lethargy, procrastination and all the negatives, which stop you from making an environment friendly.