Every business is used to making plenty of mistakes, and while you can argue that this is the one way to improve your company, with so many strict rules and regulations being applied, seemingly every month, it can be a major headache to keep on top of everything and be responsible for every single aspect of your company. But what you can take responsibility for in your immediate environment is your impact on the environment. We will have responsibilities to maintain, especially as the message hasn’t sunk into many people, as there is still an abundance of waste being thrown away every year. Your business has to communicate environmentally friendly practices, but what ones can we implement to make the biggest impacts?

Green Procurement

This is all dependent on the industry you are operating in, but one of the simplest ways to improve your environmentally friendly stance is to practice green procurement in every aspect. When you are looking for specific suppliers, and on the hunt for goods, you have to review your procurement policies to see which companies are as ethical as you are intending to be. In an industrial setting, there are companies like Oil Water Separator Technologies that remove impurities from the water. Green procurement is all about beginning locally. Part of it will be down to your inquisitive nature, as insufficient research will only come back on you when you’ve chosen a supplier that’s not all they appear to be. When looking for green suppliers, the temptation can be to look online, but this follows nicely onto the next point…

Green Hosting

Do you have to run your server as much as you need? Of course, you do! So how can we get around this tricky issue? Green hosting is all about part of the energy powering your servers coming from a renewable source of power. The best approach to do this effectively is to choose a hosting company that is environmentally friendly. The hosting company will have saved money by deciding to harness its own energy, which results in a cheaper cost to you. When you do the math, the money you will have saved you can put back into the business, while at the same time, this green approach can form part of your marketing, ensuring that customers will trust you in your ability to do what’s right for the planet.

The Green Mindset

We are bound by convenience, we don’t like to go the long way round to get something, and when trying our best to communicate to our employees to be more ethical, providing some incentive for them to go the long way around, whether this is by taking a bicycle to work or using public transport, it can take some time to set in, but by introducing remote working, this could benefit your employees in a personal sense, as well as reduce business costs.

Being environmentally friendly is a long journey we have to undertake, and going paperless is the first step, but after that, we have to delve deeper into our own actions and attitudes. From hosting to procurement to the mindset, these three approaches will give us the results.