Office recycling solutions
Office recycling solutions
Office Recycling Solutions
Choosing The Best Office Recycling System
If you wish to maximise your recycling, it is important that you choose the office recycling system that best suits your needs. V C Cooke now offers a useful and free of charge service to help. Why not invite one of our experienced consultants to visit your business and discuss your own particular requirements?
Getting Started
- Waste audit to focus on the efficiency of current disposal system and review opportunities for cost reduction.
- Installation of an effective office recycling system to improve separation
- Staff education in the form of signage and light hearted roadshows to promote the recycling ethos
- Bespoke management information to enable target setting and budget planning
Involve staff for best results
"Success is measured by the motivation of the smallest guy in your company. It's a real challenge'' Archie Norman former CEO Asda
- Assign responsibility for business energy efficiency and environmental impact to senior staff supported by green champions identifying areas of wastage, inefficient practices, plant and equipment.
- Organise refresher training on using equipment, being conscious of reducing wastage
- Regularly publicise individual and team contributions and update quantities recycled on notice board in break area
- Invite V C Cooke to stage recycling road shows introducing eco-friendly suppliers, reinforcing purpose to your staff
Publicise your success
Strengthen your brand by regularly communicating your environmental performance to raise awareness to employees, customers, staff and the local community.
Innovations
Carbon management consultation
This no-charge consultancy service to our customers is generating more interest in providing advice on energy savings, waste minimising and improving quality and quantity of recyclates. Waste audits are part of the service to benchmark areas of improvement
Bin- the- bin office recycling
System that encourages staff to separate recyclables at source. The under desk bins are removed in favour of pods of recycling stations with separate bins for cardboard, paper, cans, plastic, general waste etc. This significantly improves quantity and quality of recycling and saves resources when cleaners no longer having to waste hours emptying desk bins.
U-Save wheelie bin collection service
VC Cooke are developing our own unique bespoke "U-Save" clear bags which customers can use to bag all recyclable materials prior to placing within our single collection container.
This solution has many benefits, including
saving the customer costs for additional bins for separate waste streams
significantly reducing carbon footprint due to less vehicles required for collection
aids health and safety due to reduced vehicle movements and handling
maximises recycling due to protection of the contents and ease of identification at site.
This effectively reduces the residual refuse, lowers costs and creates increased revenue opportunities as a dividend to customers and local charities.
Closed loop recycling solution
This strategy creates new sustainable markets for our communities products. Some of which, such as stationery, recycled plastic bins, fleeces and benches can be procured by our customers, completing the purchase-use-re-use "loop".
Total waste management service for all waste disposal needs
This supports increasing numbers of our customers with peace of mind that a single call to your account manager or customer service team provides a prompt resolution and a consolidated services invoice is highly cost effective.
Carbon Management tips
1. Review efficiency
- Energy - light bulbs and timers on electrical equipment
- Water - check system and lower temperature
- Vehicles - monitor usage and fuel efficiency
- Containers - re-use and investigate the use of lighter, thinner materials
- Buildings - The Energy Saving Trust are confident you can cut costs by 15% with improved insulation and maintenance
2. Set Targets
- Sign up to the carbon reduction commitment, supported with planning advice to improve in the published league table of energy performance (Carbon Trust / Carbon Coalition websites)
- Introduce an externally audited environmental management system
3. Improve purchasing
Increasing demand has grown the market for keenly priced ethical supplies of energy, water, waste management, I.T. and consumables making them affordable and open to negotiation.
The Enhanced Capital Allowance Scheme (ECA) provides assistance to purchase and operate energy efficient equipment and vehicles
(ECA and DEFRA Websites)
4. Use free advice
The Carbon Trust provides a FOC appraisal, makes recommendations and advises of funding opportunities such as government funded Interest free loan schemes and tax benefits
(Business Link website)