Do you feel that you are not being as green as you can be at your office? Could you do a little more to help the environment, but not sure what else you could do?

Here are a few tips you can implement into your everyday life at the office and even at home:

• Use recycling bins (this is an obvious one) along side of your garbage can. I have an extra recycling bin just for confidential documents to be shredded by all my staff members.
• Leave the air conditioner/heat off before 8:00 am.
• Carpool with co-workers when you can and share the payment of gas, mileage, etc. or take transit.
• Send items to colleagues, printers, etc. with used oversized envelopes, since they don't need professional looking envelopes.
• Print on both sides of sheets or even print on the blank side of a used sheet if it's just for notes or your own files.
• Try asking your IT department to change your old monitors to flat screens, since they use up less energy and give off less heat.
• Resuse No. 10 envelopes for petty cash distribution and pay cheques that you receive in the mail, such as junk mail.

Follow these tips and you will be on your way to a greener working environment.

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Until next time,

Take care - of your clutter!