Join your local or regional green advocacy group or sign a pledge (and follow-through!). (We aren’t there yet…baby steps.!) Trial-running one day a week in your lunchroom is a great way to get the ball rolling. Some companies (such as WeWork) have gone as far as banning all meat from catered meals. Avoiding meat and dairy products is the single biggest way to reduce your environmental impact, according to the scientists behind the most comprehensive analysis to date of the damage farming does to the planet. According to an article in The Guardian, meat and dairy provides just 18% of calories but takes up 83% of farmland. To overcome the limited recycling options offered in our building we have a team of sustainability champions who take the composting home with them on a regular basis. Not all office buildings or even municipalities offer comprehensive recycling programs, especially for organic waste, but your home probably does. We use the (non-plastic) plates, glasses, and cutlery we have in the office.ĭon’t forget to check if your coffee capsules are compostable! 2 Sort it out!įind out how your building sorts waste and separate it accordingly.Ĭlear labeling and using different coloured bins really helps. Here at SDI we’ve implemented a new policy that asks suppliers when they bring catered meals and refreshments to our office to NOT bring any plastic containers or utensils. Not only is plastic killing us, but we have all seen what it does to our oceans. This increases to 74,000 and 121,000 when inhalation is considered. According to a publication in Environmental Science and Technology 2019 studying the Human Consumption of Microplastics, we ingest somewhere between 39,000 and 52,000 particles annually through water.
Microplastics - you know, those tiny weeny bits of plastic invisible to the naked eye that we consume every day. Here are 5 easy hacks you can do for the environment. Making your office more sustainable can be easier than you think. We can’t rely on our governments to protect the planet and so it’s up to the people to make a difference! ‘Sustainability’ was one of those trendy topics of the early 2000s that unfortunately is now no longer a trend but an imperative! We live in a crazy world, where science is being challenged and the realities of global warming and pollution are being ignored.