What are you doing to go green at work? (solar panel, recycling, reusable)

[PJ45]

So far this is what I do and am looking for more ideas

cut up used paper and use it instead of stickies.

take paper out of the recycling bin and reuse it to print out reports ect..

scan as much as possibe

bought forks, knives and spoons at garage sales so that co-workers would

have option to use them instead of plastic.

use a glue stick instead of tape when ever possible.

brought in my own towel to use in the bathroom rather than using papertowels.

[AKgirlinCA]

Bring a coffee cup to use in the morning rather than using a new Styrofoam one everyday. Buy a reusable plastic bottle and refill it with water from a Brita water pitcher rather than buying a bottle of water every day. I've been doing these things for quite awhile.

[AKgirlinCA]

Dust with microfiber cloths. Wash them and do it again. No more paper towels!!! No more napkins..bring towels and wash them too. Offer guests water in glass cups or coffee cups..no more styrofoam and paper cups.

[Irishtom29]

Before I retired I built and maintained anti-pollution devices in powerhouses, steel mills, refineries and chemical plants. Bag-houses, precipitators, over-fired air systems and such.

Sorry, didn't save paper cups and stuff like that.

[perfectcolor]

I'm collecting those recyclable mineral water bottles and give them to junk shops rather than disposing them elsewhere..

[AKgirlinCA]

Bring your own silverware to work.

[recycled]

I commute to work by bicycle nearly every work day. Today was commute day #216 for this year. It adds up, so far over 5000 bike commute miles this year. There's a few days per year the weather (in my area of southern cal) makes it too hazardous due to high wind or heavy rain to bike commute, but 98 percent of the time it's pretty good. My "plan B" on those few lousy days is walk one block to the bus stop and hop the bus for a relaxing 20 minute trip, and walk a couple of blocks to work.

[pinetreelover]

I work in a pediatric medical office. We used to change the table paper after every patient whether it was sat on or not (often a mom keeps her baby on her lap). Now the MD or PNP flips the end of the paper up onto the table to let the medical assistant know if it needs changing between patients. We are using about 25% less paper rolls!

[donsabi]

Does anybody remember when computers were first introduced? One of the main selling points was "going paperless and saving the rain forest." What the hell happened? Instead our paper consumption has increased beyond any stretch of the imagination. It seems for every soft copy there has to be a hard copy that is then destined for the shredder.
I suggest using the "print" button sparingly, and when you do consider using the other side of the paper. i.e, printing a store list, recipe, general information from a website. You can also reuse a lot of printed paper for children's coloring, etc.

Don

[recycled]

At my workplace the company attempts all sorts of things to make a dent in waste or consumption of resources. The company has a large fleet of vehicles and has been replacing GMC metro vans with Ford Escape hybrids for some of the technicians. There is a solar panel array on the rooftop, but it contributes only about 2 percent of the total building power needs (this building has huge amounts of computer and telecom equipment that uses as much power as a small city). The latest thing to cut waste on paper towels is automatic paper towel dispensers that push out just the minimum amount of paper needed to dry off your hands. The only flaw in this that I noticed is they are powered by 4 D cell (flashlight type) batteries. I would guess the batteries need to be replaced a couple of times a month. There are dozens of these new fangled paper towel machines in the building. What's worse, using up boxes and boxes of D cell batteries per month or using up some extra paper towels??