Getting the Most Out of Your Office Consumables

An irrefutable fact about working in an office based business is that a discomfiting amount of waste occurs with consumables and supplies. The office buyer orders too many stationery items which are forgotten and left to collect dust on the shelves. Custom designed letterheads bearing the company’s logos and listed partners go redundant after a rebranding or after one of those partners leaves. Your co-worker leaves his lunch in the fridge, doesn’t eat it owing to an overrunning meeting — leading to green fuzz growing all over the next few weeks.

While corporations boast about their waste reduction and environmentally friendly practices, individual employees still don’t possess the mindset for reusing or maximizing resources. Folks tend to squander consumables which they didn’t pay for or are readily available — which explains why it is exceedingly rare for pens and pencils to run out of ink or lead before they are lost. The following lists the ways YOU, the employee, can practice waste management at the individual level.

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