Five GreenLiving Ideas for The Office

Easy Eco-Friendly Tips for an Office Space

Grady's GreenLiving Tips often focuses on ways people and their family members and friends can practice eco-friendly tips and advice inside the home.  For example, green ways to clean kitchen counters or ways to reduce food waste at birthday parties or large family gatherings.  This week, learn five greenliving tips that can benefit an office space:

1) Recycle when possible: Recycling is an easy way to live a green life.  Remember to practice recycling even in an office setting.  Instead of throwing away old papers and folders, these materials can easily be recycled.

2) Reduce the use of plastic cups:  Visiting the office water cooler several times a day?  Using multiple plastic or paper cups, or other one-use products like plastic cutlery, is wasteful and can eventually damage the environment.  Try to reuse the same cup throughout the day.  An even better option is to bring a water bottle or mug from home that can be washed and re-used every day.  

3) Set the thermostat: Just like in the home, an office thermostat should be monitored to ensure excess heat isn't being used.  Thermostats can waste a lot of energy.  Remember to turn the thermostat off, or set it to high, at the end of the work day or when out of the office for meetings and lunch breaks.

4) Turn off the lights at the end of the day: Just like the thermostat, overhead lights in the workplace should be turned off at the end of the day and when out of the office. 

5) Pack for lunch the "green" way: Lunchtime in the office is another great time to practice greenliving advice.  Instead of buying lunch, try to pack lunch with leftovers from home. This practice can reduce food waste.

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