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How to organize a sustainable office

Is it possible to safeguard the planet even from one’s desk? Just a few small precautions are enough to transform a simple workstation into an eco-efficient place. Whether you are working from home or office, this transformation can involve various aspects: from the most demanding ones such as the choice of furniture, the technologies used or the type of energy used, to the simpler ones such as cleaning products. or stationery, to finally arrive at the behaviors that you decide to implement (or even real eco-friendly initiatives to be implemented, why not?).

Let’s start with the furniture. To be sustainable, it should be made of material that protects the environment or FSC or PEFC certified wood, i.e. coming from sustainably managed forests. Just as the paints used for the walls should comply with environmental standards, such as those with the ECOLABEL or GreenGuard certification and used in green building. Some brands that offer paints of this type are DURGA, SOLAS or OIKOS.

Sul desk instead, many eco-friendly objects can find space that give the station an immediately green air. In this case you are spoiled for choice: from biodegradable pens made of bioplastic to plantable calendars where each page can be transformed into a map up to diaries created with company waste. There are various agencies that, such as iGreenGadgets, offer this type of products or others, such as Alisea, which recover old disused materials from the companies concerned – such as brochures, flyers, billboards – and instead of throwing them they create block-notes or branded diaries .

Also, it is always better to use technologies with high energy performance and low electromagnetic emissions. Some of the certifications that can help us in the choice are the TCO or the Energy Star. And speaking of energy, why not choose a supply of green energy, ie from renewable sources? Nowadays almost all energy companies offer it, ask your supplier as well or look for an offer suitable for you.

Finally, there is one of the perhaps most important aspects. The eco-friendly behaviors to adopt. Many of these can be directly incentivized by the company, favoring the birth of initiatives and projects in this regard, while others derive from personal choices. In the gallery, we have listed some of them.

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