Be smart with your waste

Initiating an effective waste policy and systems can improve your environmental credentials, as well as, ensure that you deal with your waste properly. Reducing your waste, recycling it properly and reusing where possible will benefit your business and the environment.

Initiating an office-recycling scheme involves two basic steps. Setting up the infrastructure for the collection and storage of materials, and arranging for a collector to regularly pick up materials for recycling. The first step will require some thought during the design phase regarding the best way to collect and store materials. Often materials are collected in recycling containers placed at workstations and in central locations i.e. break and printing areas, mail and photocopying rooms. Recycling containers should be accessible to all staff and clearly marked.