ABSTRACT
Waste-reduction suggestions include: encourage employees to walk or bike to work; begin a car-pooling program. Find out who lives on whose route to work and promote cooperation; initiate a company vehicle inspection program. Ensure that all company vehicles are both efficient and well maintained. Encourage employees to be equally as vigilant and diligent with their vehicles; Determine if or how employees can work from home or, work out an alternative schedule that allows employees to stagger their schedules so they can work at home part-time; encourage conference calls and/or videoconferencing instead of travelling to meetings; and Share office space and equipment rather than purchasing separate items for every employee. If recycled paper is unavailable, use paper made from sustainable sources such as ecologically treated bamboo or hemp. Reuse paper, envelopes, and boxes whenever possible. The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission decided to replace its billing envelopes with send-and-return envelopes that could be used for both billing and receiving payments.
