Does your company do anything about environmental sustainability?
Carbon Offsets? Recycling? Sustainable wood pulp for leaflets? Car sharing? Do environmental issues figure highly on your companies priority list or is it a token effort?
I hope to pose a series of questions about working practices over the next few weeks and am interested in your responses. They will often be issues which I am considering in our workplace so here is your chance to shape our working practices!
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Recycling seems to be distressingly expensive for companies. I don't know the details but I know companies I've worked with have been put off recycling because it actually involves a lot of work and money. While I do feel this is something companies should invest in regardless, I do think councils and the government should be doing a bit more to make it easy.
Companies I've worked for have generally recycled paper and that's about it. Even that's required someone in the office dedicating a not inconsiderable amount of time to liaising with the collectors and building managers. We had a number of old computer parts to get rid of and again had to research and pay a company to come get them for us.
Of course it would be far more sensible for companies to not use so much paper etc in the first place. I look on in horror at the number of emails that are printed out, single sided and passed around the office.
Lorna:
Likewise we don't recycle because 'proper' council recycling is extortionately expensive. I collect and reuse paper and we make a real effort to ensure lights are off and windows are closed etc.
Our impact on the mountains is as low as possible. We pack all our rubbish out, biodegradable or not. We wear trainers not boots when we can to reduce erosion and we never feed the wildlife :-)
We also try to take as few vehicles as possible to a destination, however tempting getting in a car instead of a minibus full of kids is!
We are starting to think about bigger things though. Anybody know anything about One Percent for the Planet?
"We are starting to think about bigger things though. Anybody know anything about One Percent for the Planet?"
Didn't Patagonia do something very similar? (though I think t was 5%!)
"Didn't Patagonia do something very similar? (though I think t was 5%!)"
Although you have read "Let My People Go Surfing" more recently than me, I'm pretty certain that Patagonia started the 1% For The Planet scheme.
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