Question

To what extent should firms seek to be environmentally friendly?​

Answer 1

Running an environmentally friendly business helps you reduce your impact on the environment and preserves natural resources. Your business can help the environment in many ways. For example, you can:

. use products that reduce your reliance on natural resources (e.g. rainwater tanks, solar hot water systems)

. use products that are made from recycled material (e.g. office supplies made from recycled plastic, furniture made from recycled rubber)

look at all your business activities to see if you can do anything differently (e.g. reducing air travel by holding conference calls instead of interstate meetings).

. Making your business environmentally friendly not only benefits the environment but can also save you money.

Recycling reduces your costs

Avoiding, reducing, reusing and recycling can lower your costs. For example, a few simple changes to how you deal with paper can involve your staff in environmentally friendly processes while saving you money:

. avoid using materials unnecessarily

. reduce your paper needs by asking staff to print double-sided

. reuse by encouraging staff to use scrap paper for message-taking instead of purchasing message pads

. recycle by shredding excess paper - you could recycle this commercially or invite staff to take it home for their compost or mulch heaps.

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