Business Fit Magazine November 2018 Issue 1 | Page 22

Environment
Environmentally fit office
1. Conduct a waste audit, find out
what
actually gets thrown away in your office.
2. Share results with staff and run a
competition to reduce plastic use.
ChriSOULa  Sirigou
3. As well as encouraging staff to make plastic-
free choices, work with your suppliers too.
4. If a mains-water drinking fountain is not a
viable option, install a water cooler. The large
water bottles are refilled and reused. Provide
your work force with reusable water bottles
ditch the plastic cups, add your logo and you
have free advertising while helping to save our
planet. Use water glasses for visitors.
5. Stop buying plastic straws – the US alone
uses over 500 million plastic straws a day,
enough to go around the world two and a half
times. There are plenty of alternatives from
bamboo to steel to pasta to paper.
6. Do your staff order take-out lunch?
Encourage them to take their own containers
to collect their food and bring their own
non-plastic cutlery or provide your staff with
reusable containers and cutlery.
To rid the planet of plastic usage completely
is not only overly ambitious but nigh on
impossible, almost everything we use from cars
to domestic appliances to building materials to
our clothes now contain plastic. However, if
we become more responsible with our usage,
step away from the throw-away society we
have become, be more mindful of what we use
and what we throw away, take responsibility,
we can have an enormous positive impact on
our environment. We need to act now before
the consequences of our plastic usage cannot
be reversed.
22
Claire Morley, an eco-warrior in her adopted country of Cyprus, set up
a No Straws initiative to encourage bars, restaurants, hotels and cafes to
take the Straw on Demand challenge. She is also the Editorial Coordinator
for Business Fit and HealthPreneur and runs a business helping authors
to self-publish and promote their books.
www.myepublishbook.com
The BOOK of 
SOULFUL
MUSINGS
Inspiring Conversations to Live LIFE
with Love Intention Flow Ease
BOSM EUROPEAN TOUR 2019 
Book Signing Events. Workshops. Retreats.
 www.TheBookofSoulfulMusings.com