We at Top Office Furniture are always seeking to maintain a good policy on environmental issues. In addition to continually looking to improve our stance on these areas of modern business etiquette, we are also just as determined to continue with the basics. In our efforts to be of help to others, not just in the business of retailing office furniture as we do, but businesses from all areas of industry and retailing, we will cover a few basic yet useful tips that are both easy to consider immediately for those of you who want to get on board environmentally, and we hope that is everyone.
If we can encourage each other to improve on the green issues, it won’t be long before it snowballs into something really effective as everyone else climbs aboard the environmental ship.  We list ten typically important ones here…
1) Recycle your paper and ink toner cartridges. It couldn’t be simpler could it? To make it easier, most local authorities are helping by providing bins for your recycled paper and offering special collection days. As for the ink cartridges you can pass those back to your supplier for refills or exchange.

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.