Sustainable Office

Recycle paper

Reuse cardboard

Data destruction:

• Small office shredders
• Heavy-duty shredders
• Hard drive shredders
• More shredders…

Cardboard solutions:

• Cardboard shredders
• Vertical cardboard baler
• Sustainable packaging tips
• Cardboard recycling

Sort and Reduce Waste

Know what you throw away today in the office and think about how you and your colleagues can reduce, reuse and recycle tomorrow. One of the easiest ways to start is to set up a recycling station at the office for optimal separation of all the (recyclable) waste streams. Find out which waste streams can be separated, reduced, or eliminated. For instance, paper, plastics, cans, glass, food waste, batteries, or cartridges. Also, we recommend using recycling labels for more efficient waste separation.

Reduce Paper Waste

With a paper shredder, you have a machine dedicated to shredding confidential documents in your workplace. The office shredder helps to separate paper from the regular garbage. You can use a lockable shred bin to securely discard shredded material and other non-shredded confidential documents.

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Reduce E-waste

Instead of using separate printers, copiers, document scanners, or even fax machines around your workplace, you can also combine all these machines into one multifunction printer. These multifunctional machines can print, copy and scan for all your employees. The more advanced machines are also equipped with multiple drawers and can even come with a drawer for printing on larger A3 paper. Of course, you can choose eco-friendly print paper that is made of recycled paper. We do recommend printing less to prevent additional paper waste in the office. Also, print more efficiently by printing on both sides of each document. The integrated document scanner can help your employees reduce the amount of paper in your office and go more paperless.

Reduce Paper Waste

When you print or copy documents regularly at the office, it is a great option to print on recycled copy paper made of 100% recycled paper. With this white recycled multipurpose paper, you reduce your office’s impact on the environment because it saves material from ending up on landfills, and it saves the effect on forests. Buy your eco-conscious copy paper in bulk for the best price and the least impact on the environment.

Reuse Cardboard Waste

Do you have a shipping department at your office? Then you need void packaging material to ship your products safely. Instead of using wasteful plastic packaging material, like foam peanuts, you can reuse cardboard waste by shredding the material with a small-sized cardboard shredder or perforator. The shredded cardboard can be used as a void material. Also, we recommend using biodegradable packaging tape.

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Reduce Packaging Waste

Make a more sustainable cup of coffee at work. Grind coffee beans with an automatic espresso machine to make fresh coffee at the office. It is more eco-friendly to use coffee beans instead of coffee machines that require pads or capsules made of aluminum or plastic. We also recommend using fair trade coffee beans, such as Tiny Footprint Coffee. With a coffee brewer or drip coffeemaker, you make pour-over coffee at the office, also known as a drip coffee. These commercial coffee makers get equipped with multiple stations, so there is always warm enough freshly made coffee ready to serve. We recommend buying coffee-related products in bulk, such as sugar, wooden coffee stir sticks, and powder creamer. Also, don’t opt for single-serving packaged sugars and creams, but rather provide larger containers or dispensers for everyone to help themselves out of.

Reduce Disposable Plastics

Does your office use disposable single-use plastic coffee cups, stirrers, or even disposable cutlery and plates? Then you can exchange these for reusable coffee and tea mugs, cups, water glasses, dishes, and silverware. You don’t need to handwash anything. Instead, you can clean them with a dishwasher. We recommend using a commercial-grade dishwasher, for instance, one with two drawers that can clean two loads of dishes independently. Look for a dishwasher that has a large enough capacity to wash all dirty dishes efficiently. Use a dishwasher magnet with a clean/dirty sign to prevent adding dirty dishes to a clean load.

Sort and Reduce Waste

A garbage disposal is a machine that grinds up organic and biodegradable food waste directly under the sink in the kitchen or your office cafeteria. Throw away food waste easily, such as apple cores and banana peels. The shredded food scraps are then flushed away down the drain. Another alternative to a garbage disposer is a compost bin wherein you can compost organic food scraps.

Reduce Plastic Water Bottles

You can purify tap water into drinking water directly under the sink in the canteen kitchen with a water filtration system. The main advantage is that it eliminates plastic bottled water because the tap water is now drinkable right out of the faucet. The water purifier eliminates all the contaminants, so the water is safe and healthy to drink. We recommend using machine washable glasses or branded reusable water bottles for your employees to refill when they want to.

Reduce Paper Towels

An automatic hand dryer is an eco-friendly alternative for single-use paper towels. This machine helps to reduce the amount of paper waste in the restrooms in your office. The average costs of running a hand dryer are only $28 per year, much less than using paper towels. When you still want to use paper towels, we recommend sustainable paper towels made of recycled paper. We recommend the following related products for reducing waste and to save on water in the restroom: