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If you have been thinking about how you can make your business more eco-conscious, you are making a great decision. Greening your business can boost your brand’s value, attract talent, draw customers, and help you save money. But how do you go about achieving your goal? Here are a few ideas to help you get started.

1. Purchase green supplies.

One of the best steps you can take to get started is begin investing in green supplies like eco-friendly plastic storage bins. Eco-friendly business supplies like these are sustainable and made of natural, safe, healthy materials. In fact, a great start is to check our green section here for bins made out of recycled materials.

2. Use less paper.

Do what you can to cut back on your paper usage. Switch to saving digital copies of files instead of constantly filing hard copies. Send out email notifications instead of printing out office memos. Send out PDFs when you need employees to complete forms instead of printing them and distributing them throughout the office. Steps like these can vastly reduce waste as well as overhead costs.

3. Start a recycling system in the office.

What about the papers you do generate, along with other office waste? A lot of offices refuse to adopt recycling systems, and it can be notoriously hard to get employees onboard with them. But this is something which every office should be doing by now. Invest in a set of recycling bins for office environments, and make it crystal clear to employees what can be tossed into them. Posting signs directly into plastic bins can be very helpful. Give it a try, and consider calling a staff meeting to explain procedures to everyone.

4. Use energy-saving settings on computers and other devices.

When you are not using the computers in your office, are they set so that their monitors are on full brightness? This is a waste of power. Check your power settings and make sure that the screens dim or turn off automatically when the devices are not in use.

5. Allow your employees to telecommute when possible.

Something else which a lot of workplaces never consider is whether the workplace needs to be at the office for everyone. There are a lot of jobs which can be done from home. We now have plenty of messaging systems which make it easy to call meetings without employees ever needing to step into the same office, and if you are going paperless with most of your documents, you can just share everything you need online.

Not only will this protect the environment by eliminating unnecessary commuting, but you will also be wasting less of your employees’ time each day. They can get up and get right to work. This means they will probably be less frustrated and more efficient. This will increase productivity.

You now have a few ideas for how you can go green with your business. It will not happen overnight, but once you have streamlined your operations and taken a more environmentally-friendly approach, you will start cutting costs and reaping the other benefits of a green business model.