GRC Blog

Green Office Plan

• Model for Green Office Plan
• Our Green Office Plan - Recycling
• Recycling is managed by the local community. Our commitment is to dispose of paper, cans, plastics and materials as outlined by the requirements of our local recycling service provider.
• Electronic Equipment: We us local collection programs to donate or recycle end of life electronic equipment. We will avoid putting electronics into landfills by first, attempting to donate working equipment to charitable programs, and second by bringing equipment to a suitable electronic waste management facility.
• Purchasing: Preference is given to recycled products such as paper, packaging, furniture, notebooks, greeting cards, folders and envelopes.
• Shopping sacks: We will purchase and use shopping bags rather than consuming and throwing out plastic and paper. When we use paper for shopping, we will further use that bag as a packaging material in our paper recycling program
• Cut Back on the Use of Paper Products 
• Paper: products need to be treated as sustainable natural energy-compliant used at a responsible rate. Paper isn’t bad, but wasting resources is. For example, we use and retain paper documents based on the need to have a legal copy. 
• Printing and Data: We avoid duplicating or printing the information that is easily accessed through backups or online. If we can use digital records, paper copies may not be necessary.  If we can use data storage, we will not duplicate file shares on external drives and multiple server locations.
• Two Sides: We use the white side of the paper for notes or other “draft” printing.
• Advertisements and Junk: Junk Mail is as bad in digital form as a paper form. We should avoid creating it, receiving it, storing it or failing to recycle it.
  Paper Towels: Paper towels are efficient and reduce the spread of bacteria, but cloth rags are also effective for cleaning. When cleaning, use judgment.
• Marketing Matters: Double-sided printing saves paper and is equally professional as one. Printing devices and ink will be selected from energy-compliant products. We will use up our collateral before we print more.  We will not leave piles of marketing materials to be thrown out after trade shows and meetings.