Earth Day in the Workplace

Did you know that Earth Day, celebrated each year on April 22nd, turns 45 years old this year? 

How will you be marking Earth Day at your workplace? Are you looking for some easy and potentially cost-saving ideas?



Well, you're in luck! We've compiled a quick list for you:

Food & Drink Related:

• Hold an Earth Day lunch with the team featuring organic food and locally-sourced ingredients
• Encourage employees to use reusable lunch containers, coffee mugs, and refillable water containers
• Purchase a water cooler instead of bottled water

Team Activities:

• Allow a group of employees to clean up litter around the neighbourhood 
• Plant new trees and plants on your property
• Hold a contest that rewards employees who come up with ideas on how to reduce, reuse, and recycle in your workplace
• Screen a film or documentary at lunch related to environmental issues

Encouraging the 3 R's:

• Start an environmental committee or group at work and encourage its members to come up with environmental challenges for the company
• Rather than having just 1-2 recycle bins for the entire workplace, place a small recycling container for each desk - this will dramatically increase usage
• Adopt a "double-sided" policy when printing internal and non-essential documents

Transportation to/from work:

• Acknowledge employees who walk, bike, carpool, or take public transit to work
• Purchase bus tickets or bus passes for your employees
• Arrange a company carpool group

Making the workplace more environmentally-friendly:

• Insist that your cleaning service use earth-friendly cleaning products in your workplace
• Require employees to power off their computers and other electronic equipment at night and potentially during lunch/meetings if possible
• Replace older standard light bulbs with compact fluorescent ones
• Donate things like older printers and computers to those in need, or bring them to an e-Waste facility
• Turn off or lower the brightness of lights in your office if possible - particularly at night and even at lunch time

Do you have any other suggestions for celebrating the 45th annual Earth Day? Let us know in the Comments.

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