Create A Green and Healthy Office Environment

Generally speaking, green office includes many aspects, such as the office environment clean, office product clean, office product safety, office staff health ,employee’s health and so on, which are important content of green office. But in narrow sense, green office refers to the office activities used in resource conservation, reduce pollution and emissions recyclable products. We can realize energy saving and emission reduction in office by our effort.

There are some green office tips that we should take notice:

1. Green printing

Printing is a necessary activity. In fact there are many things you can pay attention to avoid some invisible pollution. For example, choose a reliable toner cartridge for your printer, if you buy an unreliable one, which will produce powder and dust. Use the fax machine carefully and choose a fax machine so that the format of the text more suited to the paper. When you using printer or photocopier, use recycled paper and double-sided printing whenever possible. Try to use email rather than printing and photocopying to email the meeting schedule to participants in advance. It can help your colleagues to prepare their speech and thus reduce the amount of paper used.

2. Light and electrical equipment

During the lunch break and overtime work, turn off the electric light and computer on time, or we should set to power saving state. After work, shut off all the lights in the office, including microcomputer, such as appliances. Pay attention that water dispenser is “big powder” , a floor type drinking water machine will consume tow electricity one day , so don’t forget to turn off when not in use.

3. Office supplies recycling

Set up “office paper sorting bins”, which can be divided into three types: office paper, newspaper and packaging paper, and collect duplicating paper, ole envelopes and writing paper. The other materials including copy paper wrapping paper and packing. Besides we should promote the use of recycled paper, replaceable core pens, recycle toner cartridges such as high yield compatible color cf212a for your laser Jet M251n printer, rechargeable batteries and other recyclable products. We should use the packing box as often as possible. Of course, we can establishment of a simple recovery glass bottles, aluminum cans and other recycling systems

4. Save energy

Please turn off the light and other electrical equipment when leaving office for more than 45 minutes. If your office is on the 5th floor or below, choose to climb the stairs instead of using the elevator, which will do great benefit for both of your health and energy save protection. What’s more, the electric refrigerator, microwave oven, including cooler, photocopying machine and other high-power electrical appliances need to shunt control.

Small things can make difference. We should exert ourselves in the struggle for the green and healthy office environment. Only then can we create more beautiful working environment around us.