Home Buy Green Eco Factoids Top Tips Links business eco factoids Here are some really good facts which might help you see where you can make some quick but effective changes to your office environment... As waste rots in landfill sites it creates methane which is 20 times more potent than Carbon Monoxide. By creating less waste and recycling the waste, we do create, we can reduce these harmful gases. Recycling just 2 glass bottles saves enough energy to boil enough water for 5 cups of tea! Long life light bulbs last 12 times longer than ordinary bulbs. The average employee generates 1 tonne of waste per year – that is 100 black bin bags each! Much of this can be recycled – start recycling today. One litre of oil is enough to pollute one million litres of water. 50% of typical office waste paper is high grade – that's expensive stuff to be wasting. Switch to re-cycled paper. Reducing your room temperature by 1°C can reduce your annual heating bill by 8-10%   Put a plant on your desk, Indoor plants are a natural air conditioner and can remove up to 87% of air pollutants in just 24 hours. The average office worker uses 20,000 sheets of paper a year. Reduce your consumption by 50% by using both sides of the sheet! Businesses discard 5 million tonnes of paper every year. Most of this ends up in landfill sites. If you leave your computer monitor on all night you’ll waste enough energy to laser print 800 pages of A4. Turn all machines off when not in use. Office equipment left on all weekend can quadruple running costs. Turn them off before you go home! We produce so much CO2 that the Earth's atmosphere can only absorb half of what we produce. Start saving energy now! Rechargable batteries are capable of being recharged over 1000 times. Switch to rechargeable options now. thesuperstatgroup registered in England No. 2868736. Unit 3 Rawdon Park, Green Lane, Rawdon, Leeds, LS19 7BA