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- Use non-chlorine bleached environmentally responsible paper for all your printing
- Identify a paper collection point(s) in the office for recycling bins to dispose of waste paper
- Use energy saving lighting
- Make maximum use of daylight and always switch off the lights at the end of the day
- Avoid using plastic cups and disposable products where you can
- Use rechargeable batteries
- Ensure your electrical equipment is Energy Star compliant
- Don’t have the air conditioning on at the same time as the heating!
- Ensure monitors, PCs, photocopiers and printers are switched off at night
- Enable power saving features on your computer monitor if you are not typing (rather than a screen-saver, which saves your screen but not your energy!)
- Buy goods with a recycled or reconditioned content
- Include eco-criteria in major purchases
- Ensure proper maintenance of office equipment to enable them to work more efficiently
- Buy products that keep packaging to a minimum
- Implement a simple recycling scheme. Check out ICER (Industry Council for Electronic Equipment recycling) – www.icer.org.uk
- Use proof and hold to ensure a document is correct before printing a long print run
- Set your printer’s or copier’s sleep mode, so when it’s not actually printing/copying the energy consumption is minimal
- Use ECOToner for draft documents to reduce the amount of toner used
- Don’t overprint documents. Take care to calculate how many copies you really need to cut down on wastage
- Print and photocopy using a double sided or using n-up layout wherever possible to reduce paper wastage and cost
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