This document provides various ideas for making an office more environmentally friendly. Some suggestions include implementing a centralized waste station and switch off campaign, buying recycled paper and eco-friendly products, switching to green web hosting, encouraging cycling and carpooling to work, installing light sensors and timers, and optimizing heating/cooling and use of natural light. The goal is to reduce the office's carbon footprint through waste reduction, energy efficiency, greener transportation options for employees, and using carbon offset programs.

1. How To Make Your Office
Green
Brianna Chavis

2. Go Green Ideas
 Remove personal trash receptacles and create one centralized waste station.
 Implement a switch off campaign for lights and office equipment.
 Buy organic products and fair trade teas and coffees.
 Purchase recycled paper and green office stationary

3. Go Green Ideas
• One of the most overlooked go green ideas is switching your web hosting to
green web hosting. The cost is negligible and the impact is high as you can
reduce indirect emissions from your carbon footprint and use an eco-label
on your website to demonstrate to visitors what you are doing to reduce
your IT environmental impact.
• Ensure hitting and cooling systems are optimally setup, meaning they aren’t
running during the evenings and weekends.
• Implement default double sided printing.

4. Go Green Ideas
 Setup a printer friendly email signature for all staff.
 Encourage cycling to work by providing subsidies for staff who use bikes and
facilities for cyclists.
 Implement a car pool scheme for staff.
 Install timers on printers to ensure shut down during out of office hours.
 Put water hippos in the toilet cisterns to reduce flush volume and save water.
 Remove bulbs in areas that are over-lit.
 Replace inefficient, high energy light bulbs with lower wattage, energy saving
lights.
 Invest in automatic power shut down software or plugs to switch off IT
equipment during out of office hours.

5. Go Green Ideas
 Have all residual landfill waste collected by a waste contractor who offers
zero to landfill services meaning they will incinerate the waste instead of
hauling it to a landfill.
 Write and implement an environmental policy.
 Use non-hazardous and Eco-friendly cleaning products.
 Encourage staff to use scrap paper for internal notes by giving each staff
member a scrap paper box in their desk.
 Invest in light sensors for areas that get used sporadically throughout the day
like meeting rooms and toilets.
 Measure your carbon footprint to identify where your largest impact is.
 Ensure boilers, AC units and radiators are properly maintained through an
annual service.

6. Go Green Ideas
 Implement a comprehensive recycling scheme to recycle cardboard, plastics,
glass, CDs, batteries, fluorescent tubes, IT equipment ect.
 Use a credible carbon offset program to offset any residual emissions that you
can’t reduce or mitigate more than you already have.
 Optimise the use of natural light and ventilation.