More Green: Recycling and Saving Money

Reducing your carbon footprint is something we strive for everyday. The best place to start is looking at something you do everyday: work. When you are in the office you should still be thinking about reducing waste and thinking of ways to reduce, recycle, and reuse!

Here are a few ways to help you save money and the environment:

Recycle everything - You might be surprised that the only thing you cannot recycle is food. Most recycling facilities accept everything from plastic (pens, cups, wrappers) glass, metal, ink cartridges, cardboard, and or course paper.
Limit Office Equipment - Do you need all those copiers, printers and scanners? Look into multifunctional devices to help save energy and room.Use Managed Print Services - These services help you better managed what gets printed, how much you print, and helps implement better printing practices like double sided print jobs.Set Printers To Economy Mode ? This mode helps save ink and electricity.
Print To Save - when Printing implement small changes like only documents seen by clients will be printed in full color, double sided printing all reports to save paper, and print to PDF helps you save documents without having to print.
Store Files electronically - Having a managed data service will help you not only save on paper and ink, but it will also save you time when you are searching for files.
Cute Down On Junk - Save paper that is a misprint or no longer in use for scratch paper. Cut down on spam mail by getting off any mailing list that is not important to you and signing up for the e-newsletters that are.

Together we can reduce waste, be green and help save money by just following these tips. Contact us for more ecofriendly office ideas.

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