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Windham Professionals believes that everyone has a duty to protect our environment. For our part, Windham recycles all cardboard waste, uses recycled paper, recycles empty ink cartridges, and has installed recycling bins in the lunch rooms of each of our Salem buildings to collect aluminum, glass, and plastic containers.
As of 2009, Windham also exclusively uses wind-generated power organization-wide, across multiple states. We purchase Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) from Community Energy, Inc. in volume enough to compensate for 100% of our power usage—an act that annually saves the equivalent of 780 acres of trees (or 2 million miles of driving). Windham is committed to our ideals and to being a positive leader in the industry, and using green power has earned us an EPA Green Power Partnership as a member of their Green Power Leadership Club.
You too can help. Below are some small steps that will make a big difference:
- Recycling at work: ensure that there are paper recycling bins close to desks or printers
- Ask your employer for separate recycling bins for glass, paper, and plastics
- Encourage your boss to purchase office paper with a high recycled content
- Wherever safe to do so, turn off all unused electrical equipment overnight or when not in use - especially computer monitors and other equipment that gets left on standby
- Switch off lights not being used
- Reduce the size of documents and print double-sided to save paper
- Add the slogan ‘Think before you print’ to the bottom of e-mails
These are just a few of the things that can be done in the workplace. In any case, employee participation is key. There are several websites that offer plans and tips to make a recycling plan at work a success:
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