St. Patrick’s Day is really big here in the UK, especially in Ireland. We wanted to celebrate “going green” in more ways than one this year. Along with donning green clothes, shamrocks and participating parades, we are taking the opportunity to highlight the other meaning for “green” in our lives.

Here are 10 office conservation tips:

  1. Turn off the lights when not in the room and use energy saving bulbs.
  2. Use the printers as little as possible and sign up for online bill pay and pay employees using direct deposit.
  3. Switch computers to hibernate during short breaks, turn monitors off when not using them, and don’t just turn off the computers when you leave for the day, but unplug them from the outlets for optimum power saving.
  4. Add some office plants to your indoor environment. Office plants filter out impurities in the air and also add a relaxing atmosphere.
  5. Organize carpooling to work with other co-workers.
  6. Consider stocking the office kitchen with your own plates, mugs, and silver ware, this can greatly reduce waste.
  7. Use non-toxic cleaning supplies.
  8. Reduce water consumption.
  9. Working together to recycle items from work, or even encouraging employees to bring recyclables from home will increase the recycled output level.
  10. Use recycled products in the work place. This not only includes the office supplies, but can also mean the products that your work purchases as well. Along those lines, we feature a variety of eco-friendly promotional products that will help your company in its mission to reduce the carbon footprint left on the environment.