It may be as easy as where the bins are located: In the case of one company, centralizing office trash bins reduced overall waste by 18 percent and increased both composting by 300 percent and recycling by 20 percent.
Talk to your office manager about setting up a paper recycling program. You'll help your office reduce its carbon footprint — the average office worker uses 10,000 sheets each year, with 45 percent of all printed pages going unrecycled. It may be as easy as where the bins are located: In the case of one company, centralizing office trash bins reduced overall waste by 18 percent and increased both composting by 300 percent and recycling by 20 percent.