Filling up our office space with air purifying plants that can also relax our nervous system is a great way to increase the wellbeing of those working in the office without making any waste.
Do you have some more Zero Waste suggestions and solutions? Write us! We’ll be happy to add it to our list and inspire always more people.
Keep on exploring our guide to how to live Zero Waste, visit all the sections:
So it’s clear how electronic pollution, between electronic waste and consumption, is huge. How can we limit that?
We can reduce the usage of devices and internet, abolishing useless navigation. Let’s choose the offline mode. Let’s avoid filling our social media with photos and contents that take up physical memory spaces somewhere in the world. Let’s erase the emails and files we don’t need.
By reducing our use of technology to the bare necessities, especially using it to avoid producing new objects or potential waste, will give us good results both in terms of Zero Waste and of time and sustainable productivity.
Workplaces swarm with these single-use monsters. Whether it’s the espresso cup with its Whether it’s the espresso cup with its little stick to steer the sugar (even when you have it without sugar or milk), or the plastic bottle of your drink, or the wrap of a snack, automatic dispensers are the epitome of single-use and here the only possible Zero Waste solution is: don’t use them.
In case we are the manager of a public place, you can choose to find alternative solutions (like returnable bottles or a nearby cafe) and raise awareness among your visitors on why you chose something different.
If we really can’t do without automatic machines, we can encourage our visitors to carry their own cup and spoon and make a place available to wash them afterwards. We can also eliminate cups and sticks from the machine so that it’ll become just a drink dispenser. This way, not only will we apply a Zero Waste solution without having to toss the machine, but we might also raise awareness among our visitors on why we’re doing it.
When it comes to water, we can give away reusable water bottles and, in case our tap water is not potable, we can install water dispensers in the building.
If we are employees, we can ask our employers to apply all that we just said, by teaming up with our colleagues to be more effective. Moreover, we can choose to bring from home our beverages and snacks in thermos and reusable bottles and containers.
Let’s not fear the reactions we may get from your visitors. When we explain our reasons with the right tone and information handy, people are always happy to listen to us and meet us halfway.
If we are a manager, let’s choose to apply Zero Waste procedures and policies in your company such as eliminating paper or the need to physically go somewhere (smart working included!). Generally speaking, eliminate everything that would represent a waste of resources, whether it’s materials, energy or time.
If you are employees, ask your managers to apply Zero Waste solutions. If we don’t want to do it alone, then let’s team up with our colleagues, and remember to point out to the managerial board that these solutions are good not just for the environment but also for the company’s money. For better or for worse, it’ll be one more reason to change!
A great way to eliminate the waste created in the cafeteria, or that results from buying takeaway lunches or snacks from the vending machines, is to pack your own meals and snacks, perhaps even a small thermos with coffee or any other kind of beverage we like. In this guide’s section outside, traveling and outdoors you can find more suggestions on this matter.
The office canteen can be one of the most polluting and wasteful places of the office, between Food Waste, packaging and single-use. Surely, who can really do something about it are those who manage it, by choosing to do it more sustainably by: cooking smaller portions and calibrating them on the actual consume; choosing local, seasonal and package-free food; eliminating single-use tableware; serving tap water; using leftovers to cook new meals; composting organic food scraps.
What employees can do is to take only what they actually eat, so to eliminate waste and, in case the canteen uses single-use tableware, they can take their own Zero Waste table kit from home: i.e. reusable water bottle, reusable glass, reusable cutleries, reusable dish and cloth napkin.
The way we make our way to the office or the way we travel for work makes too a great difference: let’s choose sustainable means of transportation or public ones. Let’s avoid airplanes and prefer trains.
If we can, let’s work from home when we can, so to avoid a polluting commuting.
Filling up our office space with air purifying plants that can also relax our nervous system is a great way to increase the wellbeing of those working in the office without making any waste.
Do you have some more Zero Waste suggestions and solutions? Write us! We’ll be happy to add it to our list and inspire always more people.
Keep on exploring our guide to how to live Zero Waste, visit all the sections:
So it’s clear how electronic pollution, between electronic waste and consumption, is huge. How can we limit that?
We can reduce the usage of devices and internet, abolishing useless navigation. Let’s choose the offline mode. Let’s avoid filling our social media with photos and contents that take up physical memory spaces somewhere in the world. Let’s erase the emails and files we don’t need.
By reducing our use of technology to the bare necessities, especially using it to avoid producing new objects or potential waste, will give us good results both in terms of Zero Waste and of time and sustainable productivity.
Workplaces swarm with these single-use monsters. Whether it’s the espresso cup with its Whether it’s the espresso cup with its little stick to steer the sugar (even when you have it without sugar or milk), or the plastic bottle of your drink, or the wrap of a snack, automatic dispensers are the epitome of single-use and here the only possible Zero Waste solution is: don’t use them.
In case we are the manager of a public place, you can choose to find alternative solutions (like returnable bottles or a nearby cafe) and raise awareness among your visitors on why you chose something different.
If we really can’t do without automatic machines, we can encourage our visitors to carry their own cup and spoon and make a place available to wash them afterwards. We can also eliminate cups and sticks from the machine so that it’ll become just a drink dispenser. This way, not only will we apply a Zero Waste solution without having to toss the machine, but we might also raise awareness among our visitors on why we’re doing it.
When it comes to water, we can give away reusable water bottles and, in case our tap water is not potable, we can install water dispensers in the building.
If we are employees, we can ask our employers to apply all that we just said, by teaming up with our colleagues to be more effective. Moreover, we can choose to bring from home our beverages and snacks in thermos and reusable bottles and containers.
Let’s not fear the reactions we may get from your visitors. When we explain our reasons with the right tone and information handy, people are always happy to listen to us and meet us halfway.
If we are a manager, let’s choose to apply Zero Waste procedures and policies in your company such as eliminating paper or the need to physically go somewhere (smart working included!). Generally speaking, eliminate everything that would represent a waste of resources, whether it’s materials, energy or time.
If you are employees, ask your managers to apply Zero Waste solutions. If we don’t want to do it alone, then let’s team up with our colleagues, and remember to point out to the managerial board that these solutions are good not just for the environment but also for the company’s money. For better or for worse, it’ll be one more reason to change!
A great way to eliminate the waste created in the cafeteria, or that results from buying takeaway lunches or snacks from the vending machines, is to pack your own meals and snacks, perhaps even a small thermos with coffee or any other kind of beverage we like. In this guide’s section outside, traveling and outdoors you can find more suggestions on this matter.
The office canteen can be one of the most polluting and wasteful places of the office, between Food Waste, packaging and single-use. Surely, who can really do something about it are those who manage it, by choosing to do it more sustainably by: cooking smaller portions and calibrating them on the actual consume; choosing local, seasonal and package-free food; eliminating single-use tableware; serving tap water; using leftovers to cook new meals; composting organic food scraps.
What employees can do is to take only what they actually eat, so to eliminate waste and, in case the canteen uses single-use tableware, they can take their own Zero Waste table kit from home: i.e. reusable water bottle, reusable glass, reusable cutleries, reusable dish and cloth napkin.
The way we make our way to the office or the way we travel for work makes too a great difference: let’s choose sustainable means of transportation or public ones. Let’s avoid airplanes and prefer trains.
If we can, let’s work from home when we can, so to avoid a polluting commuting.
Filling up our office space with air purifying plants that can also relax our nervous system is a great way to increase the wellbeing of those working in the office without making any waste.
Do you have some more Zero Waste suggestions and solutions? Write us! We’ll be happy to add it to our list and inspire always more people.
Keep on exploring our guide to how to live Zero Waste, visit all the sections:
How to have a Zero Waste office and be sustainable on the working place? Here are all the suggestions and solutions we found out, in this new chapter of our Zero Waste guide.
Before printing a document, let’s ask ourselves if we truly need to. When the answer is yes, let’s try to reduce the size of the pages and images in order to fit them in less sheets. Front and back printing is almost obvious, but we’ll say it anyway. Let’s use the blank side of a paper if it’s an informal print and let’s make sure to use recycled and certified paper.
Using both sides of a sheet of paper is a good Zero Waste practice regardless of whether we’re printing something. If we don’t need a piece of paper anymore, we can use it instead of post-it notes or as a notepad rather than throwing it away.
If we want to have a Zero Waste office, when we have many one-sided, used sheets, we can also make our own personal notebooks, agendas and calendars. Staples, or a thread and needle can help us make our DIY product, which will not only represents an amazing Zero Waste solution but turn out to be more convenient and better reflect our tastes and specific needs.
Nowadays there are so many digital devices on the planet that their ensemble takes the name of: technosphere. Its dimensions grow every day, as well as the amount of electronic waste that come from it. The internet, which we perceive as something ethereal and sustainable, is actually very pollution: it’s only thanks to huge, very material servers called Data Centers, that constantly consume energy, that we can spend our time online. Datas speak clearly: to stream 10 minutes of a HD video in terms of energy is like using a 2000W electric oven at its top power for 3 minutes. Each email, even without attachments, releases in the atmosphere around 4gr of CO2: a car releases around 140gr of CO2 per km. And let’s remember that the majority of these data centers uses unsustainable energy.Â
So it’s clear how electronic pollution, between electronic waste and consumption, is huge. How can we limit that?
We can reduce the usage of devices and internet, abolishing useless navigation. Let’s choose the offline mode. Let’s avoid filling our social media with photos and contents that take up physical memory spaces somewhere in the world. Let’s erase the emails and files we don’t need.
By reducing our use of technology to the bare necessities, especially using it to avoid producing new objects or potential waste, will give us good results both in terms of Zero Waste and of time and sustainable productivity.
Workplaces swarm with these single-use monsters. Whether it’s the espresso cup with its Whether it’s the espresso cup with its little stick to steer the sugar (even when you have it without sugar or milk), or the plastic bottle of your drink, or the wrap of a snack, automatic dispensers are the epitome of single-use and here the only possible Zero Waste solution is: don’t use them.
In case we are the manager of a public place, you can choose to find alternative solutions (like returnable bottles or a nearby cafe) and raise awareness among your visitors on why you chose something different.
If we really can’t do without automatic machines, we can encourage our visitors to carry their own cup and spoon and make a place available to wash them afterwards. We can also eliminate cups and sticks from the machine so that it’ll become just a drink dispenser. This way, not only will we apply a Zero Waste solution without having to toss the machine, but we might also raise awareness among our visitors on why we’re doing it.
When it comes to water, we can give away reusable water bottles and, in case our tap water is not potable, we can install water dispensers in the building.
If we are employees, we can ask our employers to apply all that we just said, by teaming up with our colleagues to be more effective. Moreover, we can choose to bring from home our beverages and snacks in thermos and reusable bottles and containers.
Let’s not fear the reactions we may get from your visitors. When we explain our reasons with the right tone and information handy, people are always happy to listen to us and meet us halfway.
If we are a manager, let’s choose to apply Zero Waste procedures and policies in your company such as eliminating paper or the need to physically go somewhere (smart working included!). Generally speaking, eliminate everything that would represent a waste of resources, whether it’s materials, energy or time.
If you are employees, ask your managers to apply Zero Waste solutions. If we don’t want to do it alone, then let’s team up with our colleagues, and remember to point out to the managerial board that these solutions are good not just for the environment but also for the company’s money. For better or for worse, it’ll be one more reason to change!
A great way to eliminate the waste created in the cafeteria, or that results from buying takeaway lunches or snacks from the vending machines, is to pack your own meals and snacks, perhaps even a small thermos with coffee or any other kind of beverage we like. In this guide’s section outside, traveling and outdoors you can find more suggestions on this matter.
The office canteen can be one of the most polluting and wasteful places of the office, between Food Waste, packaging and single-use. Surely, who can really do something about it are those who manage it, by choosing to do it more sustainably by: cooking smaller portions and calibrating them on the actual consume; choosing local, seasonal and package-free food; eliminating single-use tableware; serving tap water; using leftovers to cook new meals; composting organic food scraps.
What employees can do is to take only what they actually eat, so to eliminate waste and, in case the canteen uses single-use tableware, they can take their own Zero Waste table kit from home: i.e. reusable water bottle, reusable glass, reusable cutleries, reusable dish and cloth napkin.
The way we make our way to the office or the way we travel for work makes too a great difference: let’s choose sustainable means of transportation or public ones. Let’s avoid airplanes and prefer trains.
If we can, let’s work from home when we can, so to avoid a polluting commuting.
Filling up our office space with air purifying plants that can also relax our nervous system is a great way to increase the wellbeing of those working in the office without making any waste.
Do you have some more Zero Waste suggestions and solutions? Write us! We’ll be happy to add it to our list and inspire always more people.
Keep on exploring our guide to how to live Zero Waste, visit all the sections:
This zero waste handmade deodorant is very easy to make and we’re to show you how to do it. To make 200ml of deodorant you need 3 ingredients: 300 ml of tap water 1 spoon of baking soda 20 drops of Tea Tree Oil If we want, other essential oils we like for scenting Of...
How to make a homemade Zero Waste toothpaste in 3 steps? Here’s a recipe that is easier and faster than you would think. The only thing we’d like to highlight is that our homemade Zero Waste toothpaste is a powder, which has a texture and a flavor that are completely...
How to make candles with leftover wax? It’s really easy and satisfying. Moreover, making candles with leftover wax is a perfect Zero Waste solution for home decorations, or to make a sustainable present. What we need is: Leftover wax from old candles Old candles jars,...
