Going Green is an environmental movement that is increasing our awareness of just how important it is that we reduce the amount of waste we create.  Did you know that recycling a three foot stack of newspapers is enough to save a tree?

There are many ways in which to help with this movement.  One can observe their daily lives and see how they can reduce their carbon footprint.  Just by making slight changes in our daily lives we are able to help.  Bring a reusable bag to the grocery store instead of using 20 plastic bags.   Be more conscious of the waste that your groceries will create before you purchase them.  Recycle your glass and paper waste. Consider electronic methods of communication versus printing on paper.   Look for Energy Star products. Clean out your car, a litter load means less gas. It is the small changes that make a difference.  Switch to fluorescent bulbs, or just let the sun shine in. 

- On average a person has the opportunity to recycle over 25,000 cans in a lifetime.  The energy saved in recycling just one aluminum can is enough to power a television for 3 hours.

-Making paper from recycled products creates 95% less air pollution.

- Glass can be recycled an infinite number of times...it never wears out.

-In 2005, Americans recycled 3.3 billion pounds of post-consumer plastics, such as plastic drink bottles.

-Recycling one glass jar saves enough to light a conventional 60-watt bulb for 4 hours...or an 11 watt CFL bulb for 20 hours.

-The plastic recycling industry employs over 52,000 workers

-Recycling five plastic soda bottles provides enough fiber to make an extra large T-Shirt, a square foot of carpet or enough fiber to fill a ski jacket.

-American's Generate about 4.4 pounds of trash per person per day. (That’s up from only 2.7 pounds in 1960!)

-Americans throw away enough wood and paper each year to heat five million homes for two hundred years!

-Did you know that paper makes up 40% of all landfill waste

-It takes 60% less energy to manufacture paper from recycled stock than from new materials.

Fact courtesy of the National Recycling Coalition, www.nrc-recycle.org

Analyze your company and its process.  How can you REDUCE, REUSE, AND RECYCLE?

At General Office Supply, we send our cardboard waste from furniture jobs and our in-house shredded documents to our local recycling facilities.  We are currently analyzing how we can further "Go Green”.

We also have a Green Catalog, that features green products that are either made from post consumer waste or in some way compliment the overall goal of going green.  Send us a request for your free catalog.

To our customers, General Office Supply offers not only green office supply products but solutions, such as, energy star rated copiers (networking of printer solutions - reduces ink usage/ energy usage/ paper usage) and we recycle used toner and ink cartridges. 

Do your part and reduce the impact we are having on our planet.  GO GREEN!

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
-Shakespeare

"Only after the last tree has been cut down…the last river has been
poisoned…the last fish caught, only then will you find that money cannot be
eaten."
- Cree Indian Prophesy

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of
the world."
-John Muir

"But now, says the Once-ler, Now that you´re here, the word of the Lorax
seems perfectly clear. UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It's not."
-Dr Seuss

"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of
what we are doing to ourselves and to one another."
-Gandhi

"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When
we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with
love and respect."
- Aldo Leopold, from A Sand County Almanac, 1949

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead