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Office waste costs businesses £15bn a year
Date: 22/02/2008
Envirowise, a government-funded group that advises businesses on sustainability, has announced that bad waste practices are costing UK industry at least £15bn each year. To highlight the issue they have launched One Bin Day which urges the UK’s 25 million office workers to use just one bin per office.
The group is parading a giant, 2.5 metre high waste paper bin around the capital - made from the 1,584 sheets of paper that the average office worker prints off in a month - and urging the nation's office workers to use just one bin per office.
The campaign illustrates the problem and aims to prompt office works to rethink the way they use materials and handle waste. Figures show, for example, that the average office worker uses 50 sheets of paper a day.
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