As time goes  by, the neg­a­tive impact caused to our won­der­ful planet by the human race is becom­ing increas­ingly obvious.

That’s prob­a­bly the under­state­ment of the year so far!

We can all as indi­vid­u­als do small things to coun­ter­act or reduce the per­pet­ual dam­age we are causing.

Recy­cling, for exam­ple has been made sim­ple for us both at home and at the office. It is effec­tive and sim­ple  and we’ve known about it for years .

There are facil­i­ties in place to recy­cle our glass, plas­tic and most metal items. This can be effected at home and by tak­ing the items to a local depot or to con­ve­nient recy­cling areas

We can all save power by turn­ing off lights in unoc­cu­pied rooms or offices. We can learn to turn off power sources to var­i­ous appli­ances and not leave them on ‘standby’.

It is not nec­es­sary to drink and eat from dis­pos­able plates and cups . Some mate­ri­als from which these are made may be biodegrad­able but many are not.  A china cup improves the plea­sure of drink­ing a cup of cof­fee or tea no end. This alone offers real ben­e­fit to the consumer.

Bot­tled water is a real waste of our resources when good, clean, drink­able water is so read­ily avail­able to all.  Recent reports show that the amount of plas­tic waste from pack­ag­ing gen­er­ated each year in the UK alone is esti­mated at 1.5 mil­lion tonnes.  Reduc­ing that fig­ure would do won­ders for our environment.

Email is a boon to soci­ety as  thanks to the ‘infor­ma­tion age’ we can share our ideas, news items, jokes and anec­dotes with every­one with­out the use of paper resources. Just remem­ber not to print! Few  emails are so impor­tant that we need a copy to keep for posterity .

A sig­nif­i­cant move towards being ‘eco aware’ in the work­place is the use of recy­cled mate­ri­als in the pro­duc­tion of office fur­ni­ture. 

A prod­uct called Wheat­board has been intro­duced. It is a by prod­uct of wheat straw and would his­tor­i­cally   be dis­carded and burnt or left in land­fills . It uses no formalde­hyde in it’s con­struc­tion and when pro­duced into boards, issupremely ver­sa­tile as it may be painted, var­nished, sealed etc and formed into many designs.

It’s qual­i­ties of being extremely durable and light­weight have made it a viable alter­na­tive to wood and a renew­able mate­r­ial per­fect  for mak­ing  office desks, cab­i­net and cup­boards as well as fur­ni­ture items for the home.

We can all become ‘eco aware’ whether  at work or home with merely  a lit­tle thought and prac­ti­cal application.

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