2) Reduce your energy costs by ensuring all equipment and lights are turned off that are not in use and also particularly while the office is closed. Heating should be thermostatically controlled and on a timer so that unnecessary burning of fuels isn’t done during the night or at weekends for example. If you have the need to keep anything running when the office or buildings are empty, work on a plan to keep it to the bare minimum.

3) Use energy efficient lighting, this is so easy as with most green issues, and these lights are cheaper in the long run too, it’s a no-brainer really.

4) Use environmentally friendly cleaning products, again labels on these products tell you all you need to know here, get into the habit of reading them and learning which products are not going to cause any damage to your environment and are easily bio degradable for example.

5) Use conference calls rather than travel to meetings, again this is also cost effective for you as well as the environment. What’s more, you can avoid those hugely frustrating and expensive traffic jams.

6) Use a green energy supplier, shop around and read their policies, if we all pull together and choose only those showing positive actions, the rest will also see it is necessary to get involved.

7) Adopt water reduction practices, don’t leave taps running, set the toilet cistern to fill up less and with this in mind, it has long been an idea to place an object in the cistern such as a brick to take up some space thus saving water on its refill.

Use suppliers who are environmentally active. Whoever you purchase your goods from should be showing efforts to be environmentally active.

9) Encourage others to follow our stance, by getting started on these issues everyone can easily consider themselves involved. Then it simply gets so easy to maintain and grow your involvement into something that is really productive and helpful for doing your bit in the cause for a better planet.

10) Have an environmental policy? If you can write a plan, stick it on a notice board, encourage comments and ideas from fellow staff members and keep to a strict policy it not only works, it will be rewarding too.

The team at Top Office Furniture, will keep looking to help the environment and we will seek business to business
relationships with others who do the same.

The FSC is an independent, non-governmental, not for profit organisation established to promote the responsible management of the world’s forests. The FSC Principles and criteria describe how the forests have to be managed to meet the social, economic, ecological, cultural and spiritual needs of present and future generations.

They include managerial aspects as well as environmental and social requirements. In fact, FSC rules are the strictest and FSC’s social and environmental requirements are the highest.

How is bonded leather made?

Genuine leather cuttings from factories and tanneries are recycled to manufacture an environmentally friendly material. This innovative leather-fibre material has been named ‘Enviro-Leather’. It is manufactured with specific properties which make it look, feel and even smell like leather. Another benefit of using Enviro-Leather is it is more durable and hardwearing than natural leather, it is also more cost effective.

Bonded leather is produced in a similar process to paper manufacturing. Leather scraps are dispersed in water and are shredded and milled by special grinders to free the leather fibres. Mixing these fibres with natural latex binders and other additives, a leather fibre pulp is produced. The pulp is then continuously poured and processed on a web, which is then dried and reduced to a uniform thickness. The surface is then embossed with a grain to make it look like natural leather and finally a polyurethane coating is applied to give a soft feel and rich colour.

Top Office Furniture are proud to be introducing the new Enviro-Leather to our comprehensive range of modern office chairs.

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