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At the Office
Offices at corporations, businesses, and organizations are continually increasing their efforts to reduce, reuse, and recycle materials, benefiting both the environment and their bottom line.
EPA offers resources to help organizations and decision makers manage materials effectively, communicate the benefits of waste management, and educate and motivate employees. Employee involvement is critical to the success of an organization's waste reduction program. This page contains resources for:
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Resources
Climate Change: At the Office
This site provides easy steps you can take to not only reduce your greenhouse gas emissions, but also reduce air pollution, increase the nation's energy independence and save money.
How to Start or Expand a Recycling Collection Program (PDF) (4 pp, 60K)
Provides basic information on establishing recycling collection programs in any setting, with a focus on collection in offices. Discusses identifying, collecting and storing recyclable materials, as well as starting a collection program", finding a market, selling collected materials, and monitoring and evaluating success.
Business Guide for Reducing Solid Waste (PDF) (82 pp, 50MB)
Provides information for business on how they can reduce solid waste.
Spotlight on Waste Prevention: EPA's Program to Reduce Solid Waste at the Source (PDF) (20 pp, 395K)
Describes EPA's initiative to reduce municipal solid waste. Focuses on examples of how source reduction efforts benefit business and industry, governments, and consumers. Also details EPA's efforts in helping prevent waste.
WasteWise Update: Employee Education (PDF) (12 pp, 657K)
Focuses on employee education as a key element of a successful waste reduction program.
WasteWise Update: Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (PDF) (16 pp, 1.8MB)
Environmentally preferable purchasing (EPP) encourages organizations to consider environmental attributes of products and services prior to purchase. Identifies the benefits of EPP, describes how to establish and maintain an EPP program, and provides EPP examples.
The Comprehensive Procurement Guideline (CPG) program is part of EPA's continuing effort to promote the use of materials recovered from solid waste. Buying recycled-content products ensures that the materials collected in recycling programs will be used again in the manufacture of new products.
- 2007 Buy-Recycled Series: Nonpaper Office Products (PDF) (6 pp, 316K)
- 2007 Buy-Recycled Series: Paper Products (PDF) (8 pp, 343K)
