Waste management is an integral part of any business strategy, especially with the onus being on businesses and corporations to be more environmentally responsible and ethical. Monitoring and streamlining your waste processes can help to both cut costs at your business, whilst also reducing your carbon footprint. At SB Civil, our engineering projects are geared towards waste management and sewage systems. So here are our top tips for reducing your business waste and implementing a long-term strategy for your business.
1. Reuse office supplies
Ask yourself this question: how much is your business spending on office supplies and equipment? Secondly, how much of these supplies and equipment are being used efficiently and effectively? If the answer to those questions is " a lot" and "too much", then you should think about limiting the supply of your office equipment. Encourage a culture where employees are re-using their unwanted supplies. Create a central supply area where equipment is deposited and subsequently re-used.
2. Re-use supplies in recreational areas & cafeterias
Again, this is as much about changing a culture as anything else; encouraging staff to re-use plates, cups, tableware. Encourage washing up and recycling on site as much as possible. Install a dishwasher; it may work out to be a great return on your investment when it comes to reducing waste and streamlining waste disposal.
3. Improving your recycling program
Once again, this is very straightforward, and only requires minor cosmetic changes to infrastructure of your office. Create waste stations with bins around the building and make sure that the bins are compartmentalised into regular waste, food, paper and bottles. Use colour-coded signage to try to drive staff behaviour towards more environmentally friendly practices.
4. Manage your food waste
To move towards a zero waste policy, then you must make sure you tackle food waste in its entirety; indeed you would be wise to look at compostable materials of all kinds, e.g. paper towels in toilets/bathrooms. Install organic containers in food preparation areas and make sure that staff are encouraged to use them.
5. Conduct a full waste assessment
A waste assessment is the best way for you to manage what waste is generated by your business. What type of waste is generated, and how is it disposed of? What long-term goals can you set your organisation to ensure that company behaviour changes for the better?
1. Reuse office supplies
Ask yourself this question: how much is your business spending on office supplies and equipment? Secondly, how much of these supplies and equipment are being used efficiently and effectively? If the answer to those questions is " a lot" and "too much", then you should think about limiting the supply of your office equipment. Encourage a culture where employees are re-using their unwanted supplies. Create a central supply area where equipment is deposited and subsequently re-used.
2. Re-use supplies in recreational areas & cafeterias
Again, this is as much about changing a culture as anything else; encouraging staff to re-use plates, cups, tableware. Encourage washing up and recycling on site as much as possible. Install a dishwasher; it may work out to be a great return on your investment when it comes to reducing waste and streamlining waste disposal.
3. Improving your recycling program
Once again, this is very straightforward, and only requires minor cosmetic changes to infrastructure of your office. Create waste stations with bins around the building and make sure that the bins are compartmentalised into regular waste, food, paper and bottles. Use colour-coded signage to try to drive staff behaviour towards more environmentally friendly practices.
4. Manage your food waste
To move towards a zero waste policy, then you must make sure you tackle food waste in its entirety; indeed you would be wise to look at compostable materials of all kinds, e.g. paper towels in toilets/bathrooms. Install organic containers in food preparation areas and make sure that staff are encouraged to use them.
5. Conduct a full waste assessment
A waste assessment is the best way for you to manage what waste is generated by your business. What type of waste is generated, and how is it disposed of? What long-term goals can you set your organisation to ensure that company behaviour changes for the better?