How to Transform your Business into an Environmentally Friendly & Green Business
Taking care of our environment is crucial and should remain a priority to individuals all over the world. We only have one planet Earth, so why not try to implement tasks into our companies’ daily routines to help save it? Green businesses embrace sustainable shipping methods, labor practices, operating procedures, and environmentally safe sourcing materials.
In today’s society, being an environmentally safe company draws in consumers for multiple reasons. One reason being that green companies strive to improve the lives of their employees and customers through social and environmental acts. Secondly, being a green company helps improve communities and environments through their positive and thought-out actions to minimize waste and conservation of energy. A company that prioritizes helping the environment by putting actions in place within their company and into their mission is more reliable to those that come across it making people feel safer buying their products.
Green companies have a responsibility to help create a sustainable environment in the workplace and they also make a social and environmental promise to positively impact their community as well. “Globally, nearly eight in ten consumers surveyed say they value sustainability. Over 70% of these respondents would pay, on average, 35% more for eco-friendly brands.” Promoting health, safety, prevention, and protection in our communities shows that green companies do make an impact and play an important role in helping to sustain our world.
Here are nine steps you can take to develop your company into a green establishment:
Create products that use environmentally friendly and sustainable materials as well as products that of not generate a lot of waste.
Recycle materials and minimize waster within your company. Use sustainable materials around the office.
Use eco-friendly cleaning supplies within your companies’ buildings.
Conserve electricity within your business and limit unnecessary use of technology that is plugged into power sources. Restrict use of fossil fuels and use other eco-friendly options for energy such as solar panels
Utilize digital forms of communication and reduce the use of paper in the workplace. Use technology as much as possible when communicating with your customers.
Conduct eco-friendly operations within your business. Create conservation plans that employees can follow to help reduce unnecessary use of electricity. Develop a plan for customers to dispose of waste that your product creates to be more environmentally friendly.
Prioritize the environment by engaging your company to volunteer to clean up your communities. Having these events in place makes social and environmental change in the world, your community, and within your company.
Highlight important information in your company newsletter regarding your own positive impacts on the environment. Employees feel a sense of pride knowing their company is taking active steps to help the environment.
Educate your employees on why it’s important to prioritize the environment within your company. It is important for everyone to understand the positive impacts making these changes has.
iCleanse is a green and sustainable company, meaning there are minimal negative impacts to the environment or the community with the use of its products. iCleanse is very proud of the Swift product line for being so effective and efficient with no harmful waste being created. Using ultraviolet light produces virtually no waste as compared to other traditional disinfectants like sprays and wipes. Helping the community stay healthy while remaining environmentally friendly is very important to our mission. With iCleanse Swift units, it is a one-time purchase for a product that allows thousands of cycles of disinfection of items and devices.
When it is time to replace your Swift unit’s lamps, it is important to dispose of them properly. iCleanse has made it easy to properly recycle used lamps. Simply ship them back to us in the packing box of your new lamps. You can also visit www.lamprecycle.org for more information on how to properly dispose of used lamps and how recycling them benefits the environment.
Being a green company isn’t easy and it does not happen overnight. It is something that should be implemented into your business because you truly believe in helping the environment and making a difference in the people and places all around you. Becoming a green company should be a priority within your business because it shows that your company is environmentally conscious and cares about conserving the world we live in.
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