Jjt2 Task 1
Environmental Considerations and Recommendations
Company X does not currently have any environmental initiatives. There are a few I would readily recommend, going paperless, turning off our computers before leaving, and allowing more telecommuting. Each one of these can help protect the environment by reducing pollution in one manner or another. These are all small changes that could have a big impact. With a company size approaching 150 employees we can generate quite a bit of pollution just in our day to day activities without knowing we did so. Let us first look at going paperless while this seems like a very broad sweeping statement that everyone should go paperless to save the trees there are some specifics at Company X that make it attractive. We are already recycling as paper as we can with in the office however that only goes so far if we could reduce the amount of paper used to begin with that would reduce the trees being cut down and the pollution put off during the recycling process. Company X currently fills up 4 – 26 Gallon Recycle bins per month with paper and we shred another 4 - 30 gallon bins, I am assuming the bins being shredded are also being recycled. Much of the paper we are using could easily be turned into online assets that require no paper. We have invoices coming in and we send invoices out we could utilize the electronic invoicing with in our CRM this would also benefit customers as invoices would not get lost in the mail. The employee expense reports which average 3 pages per employee could also be moved to an online system reducing roughly 450 pages or roughly 1 ream of paper being wasted each month. According to Conservatree one ream of paper is the equivalent of 6% of a tree (Trees Into Paper). I am not sure exactly how many reams of paper a year we use but I am sure we could save a few trees over the course of a year. Another way we could become more “Green” is turning off our computers at night. We have 150 employees
Company X does not currently have any environmental initiatives. There are a few I would readily recommend, going paperless, turning off our computers before leaving, and allowing more telecommuting. Each one of these can help protect the environment by reducing pollution in one manner or another. These are all small changes that could have a big impact. With a company size approaching 150 employees we can generate quite a bit of pollution just in our day to day activities without knowing we did so. Let us first look at going paperless while this seems like a very broad sweeping statement that everyone should go paperless to save the trees there are some specifics at Company X that make it attractive. We are already recycling as paper as we can with in the office however that only goes so far if we could reduce the amount of paper used to begin with that would reduce the trees being cut down and the pollution put off during the recycling process. Company X currently fills up 4 – 26 Gallon Recycle bins per month with paper and we shred another 4 - 30 gallon bins, I am assuming the bins being shredded are also being recycled. Much of the paper we are using could easily be turned into online assets that require no paper. We have invoices coming in and we send invoices out we could utilize the electronic invoicing with in our CRM this would also benefit customers as invoices would not get lost in the mail. The employee expense reports which average 3 pages per employee could also be moved to an online system reducing roughly 450 pages or roughly 1 ream of paper being wasted each month. According to Conservatree one ream of paper is the equivalent of 6% of a tree (Trees Into Paper). I am not sure exactly how many reams of paper a year we use but I am sure we could save a few trees over the course of a year. Another way we could become more “Green” is turning off our computers at night. We have 150 employees
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