What can businesses do?

Where does the business get its energy from? Switching to a green electricity tariff or company for example is a great way to reduce your carbon footprint quickly

Businesses can encourage employers to use greener forms of transport

A very quick and easy change would be to switch the brand of tea bags you might use in the office to one which doesn’t contain and plastic. 

Business Wales has a handy guide for setting up a business recycling scheme. 

Hopefully most companies will have a ‘think before you print’ philosophy, encourage electronic storage of files rather than printing them out, printing on both sides of the paper and reusing previously one sided printed paper for notes etc. 

Reducing water consumption in a workplace can help businesses comply with current and future environmental legislation, reduce its carbon footprint and improve the company’s environmental performance.

Plants can help clean the air in an office by absorbing some toxins. Do you have enough greenery in your office?  

Can your place of work shift to using eco-friendly cleaning products for example? 

If you work in a tourism related business, maybe you could ask them to sign up to a scheme such as Green Tourism or the Green Key Awards?

Frankfurt's green rooftops and urban airways aim to keep the city cool

This section will give you ideas you can talk to your workplace about.