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When it comes to going green at work, you have two main options: green options that can legitimately save your company money and ones that won’t. The good news is that even with the green options that will cost your firm, you can utilize them in PR campaigns that could pay off mightily down the road. Let’s take a look at a few common sense things you can do around the office to Go Green and stay green.

Power is money

Recycling comes with hidden costs. Sometimes those costs are higher than you think.

On nearly every level of government from the federal all the way down to local, there is usually some form of recycling law or mandate. Several states, in fact, have gone as far as to require home recycling. But, as people become more educated with our collective impact on the environment, are we continuing to put an undue emphasis on recycling at the detriment of the other two modern recycling rudiments? Are we recycling when we should instead be reducing or simply reusing?

Paved surfaces, they’re so widespread and common that few of us think much about their effect on water quality and the environment. The reality is that as more land is paved, more rainwater falls on that pavement rather than soaking into the ground. Traditional paving techniques create “impervious” surfaces, that is, surfaces that can’t be penetrated by water. The results of an increasing amount of impervious surfaces include erosion, flash floods, depletion of the water table and pollution.

Vinyl Chloride is perhaps something that is not widely considered; however, is more widespread than most people know as it is used in so many manufacturing processes. There are many regulatory measures in place regarding its use.

The American Chemical Society (ACS) assigns a Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) registry number too many different chemical compounds for identification purposes. The CAS for Vinyl Chloride is 75-01-4.

The ACS keeps documentation on research and events which involve Vinyl Chloride and are an excellent resource for these materials. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is another body regulating vinyl chloride.

Carbon offsetting provokes a powerful emotional response in some people. They just don’t like the idea that you can pay someone else to mop up your carbon emissions. It smacks of indulgence and cheating. Critics say buying an offset while continuing to fly, or drive an SUV, or live in a mansion with all the lights on, is at best hypocritical, and at worst, downright dangerous. It simply avoids the issue, which is that we should be reducing our carbon footprint, and simply encourages the delusion that we can go on living in an environmentally profligate way.