FIVE HELPFUL TIPS TO REDUCING CARBON FOOTPRINT

Five tips which will help your office reduce its carbon footprint.

1. Have your documents scanned and store them centrally on your office network. A scanned document can be copied, emailed and backed up with no need to print or photocopy which seriously reduces energy bills, photocopying and printing can consume more energy than you think.

2. Any brochures and marketing material often used should often be converted to PDF format, you can distribute these final versions to your prospective and existing clients instantly via email or through website and reduce the amount you spend on regularly printing these materials.

3. Be sure to turn all computers and even monitors off at night, leaving them on standby still uses around 40% of their energy so ensure they are fully switched off.

4. Install office light sensors so they are only turned on when somebody is working beneath them.

5. Re-use, reduce and recycle. Doing this in your building helps conserve energy. Almost everything in the office can be recycled in some way. This reduces pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from resource manufacturing, and disposal.

Implementing these measures in the office can have a great impact on your carbon footprint and finances. It is only a matter of time before this is all monitired daily around the UK to try and keep emissions low.