Tourism Vancouver Island has been looking for ways to limit the office’s environmental impact. One of the main ways we have achived this is by implementing mixed recycling pick-up. At our previous office location, we had paper recycling in place, but we noticed that there were alot of recyclable materials that were going into the trash because of our lack of recycling facilities.
With a weekly pick-up of items ranging from tin cans, plastic containers, plastic grocery bag and newspapers, we are seeing a dramatic decrease in the amount of material in our trashcans.
Taking action with baby steps, such as recycling and composting, can produce dramatic results in limiting your company’s carbon footprint. Even when you think the end result will be insignificant, or that your company won’t have that big of an impact, think again. No change is too small to go unnoticed by Mother Earth.