| Pens, cartridges and fasteners join green recycled | | | | often a cost-effective place to start. |
| paper and recycle containers as items that allow | | | | When looking for other products, remember that while |
| green businesses to be environmentally friendly. | | | | some products may be easily labeled - i.e. green |
| HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Using environmentally green | | | | recycled paper - the phrase "post-consumer" is also |
| recycled paper has become common, but there are | | | | becoming fashionable for identifying green products. |
| plenty of other procedures offices can follow to help | | | | Some common sustainable office supplies include |
| reduce their carbon footprint. And many of them often | | | | pens, highlighters, toner cartridges, and - believe it or |
| make good business sense. | | | | not - stapleless staplers. When purchasing pens, look |
| Going green with recycled paper and recycle | | | | for bodies that are made from wood or biodegradable |
| containers helps take care of waste products, but | | | | corn. Such pens often allow for refillable ink, which |
| using sustainable office supplies can actually help | | | | saves users from tossing them in the recycle |
| prevent waste, which arguably has an even bigger | | | | containers the first time the ink runs dry. |
| event on the environment. | | | | Many ink cartridges for printers and copiers are also |
| Studies have found that as much as 10 percent of all | | | | refillable, pushing them to the top of the list of |
| landfill waste comes from office supplies. Not all used | | | | sustainable office supplies. Stapleless staplers work by |
| pens and staplers can simply be tossed into recycle | | | | making small cuts in stacks of paper that cause them |
| containers. | | | | to bind. And those looking for a paper clip to bind their |
| Limiting waste begins with purchasing only the amount | | | | green recycled paper should look for clips made from |
| of sustainable office supplies that are necessary. While | | | | recycled metals. |
| buying in bulk may seem cost effective now, | | | | The growing number of retailers currently selling green |
| remember that every day more and more green and | | | | office products is making the choice to build an |
| recycled products are being introduced. If purchasers | | | | environmentally friendly office even easier. And the |
| are buying a product that doesn't have a green | | | | abundance of outlets selling environmentally-friendly |
| version, buying a limited amount may allow enough | | | | sustainable office supplies continues to increase. |
| time for a green version of that product to be | | | | With internet retailers becoming as reliable as those |
| produced. | | | | outlets with physical storefronts, the most cost |
| The next time an order is placed purchasers can look | | | | effective solutions for green offices are often found |
| for sustainable office supplies that are made from | | | | via the computer. |
| products that have been recycled. Containers are | | | | |