http://www.ChooseWhat.com/ helps you green your office! Making your office more eco-friendly does not only help create a more cleaner environment, but can also save your company time, money and resources. ChooseWhat has compiled the top eight ways your office can quickly make a sustainable program for going green.

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2. It’s easy to set up and label
different trash cans for
different products.
*Just make sure you or your
cleaning crew doesn’t
empty them all in the same
dumpster at the end of the
day!

3. When switching to an online fax
service from a traditional fax,
you not only use less paper,
toner, and energy, you also
benefit from a big cost savings.
MyFax, released a press release
saying that If 1% of all paper
faxes sent in America each year
were sent electronically, 73.5
million trees would be saved*.
* Taken from FaxCompare.com, a site that reviews
top online fax companies and makes it easy to pick
the service right for your company.

4. Almost every company now offers
paperless billing, where statements
and invoices are sent through email
instead of traditional mail. If every
house in the United States used only
paperless billing, it could reduce solid
waste by more than 80,000 tons a
year. That would reduce the release
of greenhouse gases by 2.1 million
tons.
Paperless billing also has benefits
such as
• improved organization
• the ability to immediately review
your statements.

5. With the heavy use of email and
document sharing applications,
such as Google Docs, there is
rarely a need to print out
documents. If you absolutely
must, make sure to print double
sided, thus halving the amount
of paper you use.
Currently, the U.S. pulp and
paper industry is the 2nd largest
consumer of energy.
Data Source: www.epa.gov

6. EPA’s Greenhouse
Gas Equivalencies
It’s easy to leave the office for
Calculator the day without turning off your
electronics and lights. By taking
the time to turn off your
computer and all other
electronics when you leave the
building, you would be saving a
tremendous amount on your
energy bill. Most electricity is
generated by power plants that
use non-renewable fossil fuels like
coal, oil, and natural gas, which
release carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere.

7. Replacing tungsten bulbs with
compact fluorescent lamps
typically makes an immediate
cost savings of between 50-80%,
and CFLs last up to 10 times
longer.
Using less electricity reduces
nuclear waste, sulfur oxide, and
C02 emissions.

8. Instead of having to
remember to turn down
your AC every time you
leave for the day, invest in a
programmable thermostat.
It will automatically reduce
your energy consumption
during non business hours
and lower your energy bill.

9. Personal vehicles, such as cars,
motorcycles, and light trucks
make up 59% of total energy
used for transportation in the
US.
Offering your employees an
incentive for using public
transportation or riding their
bike to work can significantly
reduce energy used for
transportation.