Carbon Audit • Green Partner
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- Improve employees to reduce carbon awareness.
- Waste recycling, making it recyclable.
- Reduce beverages in single-use plastic bottles and purchase energy-efficient products when purchasing.
- Post signs and regulations to save electricity and water.
- Monthly internal gatherings, using recycled tableware.
- Use plastic bins instead of disposable paper packaging.
- Record electricity and water consumption for review.
- Install partitioned power switches to reduce power consumption.
- Set up a Carbon Committee to plan for long term carbon reduction roadmap and measures
- Obtain environmental management system certification and conduct environmental audits in accordance with ISO14001:2015
- Paper Saving
- Use both sides of paper
- Use suitable font size / shrinkage mode to minimize pages, if possible
- Use electronic media for circulation / communication to minimize using paper
- Covers are not used unless necessary
- Implement internal administration via online platform for application and approval
- Centralise data management system to reduce archive of hardcopy documents
- Materials Re-use and Conservation
- Choose proper-sized materials for packing
- Choose waste papers as fillers for packing and or reduce using fillers, if possible
- Handle and store materials carefully to reduce breakage and wastage
- Reuse boxes, fillers and other material for packaging, storage and delivery
- Water Conservation
- Report leaking faucet or pipe to the relevant authority
- Turn off the tap when not in use
- Electricity Conservation
- Set energy saving mode where possible, for computers the idle automatically mode is 20 minutes or less
- Set the room temperature range between 20°C to 25.5°C. The ideal optimal temperature is 25.5°C
- Switch off unnecessary lighting
- Switch off power supply when they are not in use
- Switch off all power supply in the area before leaving the work station
- Switch off all computers and monitoring screens before leaving the work station
- Stationery Conservation
- Use environmental friendly stationery. (e.g. refillable, durable stationery with no chemicals)
- Reuse cord binder, envelopes and other materials until worn out
- Reuse stationery as far as possible
- Green Pantry
- Use reusable cutleries, cups and glasses
- Use environmental friendly cleaning products. (e.g. biodegradable detergent, refillable soap, etc.)
- Proper Management of General Refuse
- Establish waste segregation with separately allocated containers (e.g. paper, toner cartridge) to facilitate recycling of general solid wastes
- All food and waste shall be properly bagged and bundles to avoid water or waste leakage. Food and waste food shall only be disposed in designated bins within the pantry areas. All pantry and office areas must always be kept in a hygienic state
- Toner Cartridge Recovery
- Collect used toner cartridges and arrange appropriate contractor for recycling
- Waste Paper Recycling
- General waste paper are placed in the designated containers, while contaminated papar (e.g. food contaminated paper) and non-recyclable paper (e.g. carbon paper, plastic laminated paper) shall be processed separately
- Waste Computers and Accessories
- Collect and reuse waste computer accessories in other computers or systems wherever practicable
- Batteries Collection
- Encourage the use of rechargeable batteries
- Collect spent batteries for recycling / proper disposal
- Indoor Air Quality
- Place large-leafed green plants in office areas where possible. Encourage staff to keep small green plants
- Implement a no smoking policy within office
- Arrange pest control, ventilation system and carpet cleaning on a regular basis
- Participate in WWF’s ‘Earth Hour’ campaign
- Join ‘Green Earth Companion Programme’
- Organise Green Low Carbon Day, offering green lunch and seminar to colleagues
- Participate in The Green Earth - Plantation Enrichment Programme to plant native seedlings in the Country Park
- Reduce overseas travel and utilise video conferencing for global meetings
- Use electrical car for daily documents delivery
- Divide regional office into different color zones for control of different area lighting and air conditioning systems
- At lunch time, turn off all lighting and air conditioning systems
- At non-office hour, turn off lighting and air conditioning and open only a part of the system
- Replacement T5 compact fluorescent tubes with LED lighting for the whole office in 2009
- In 2009, used the latest series of copies machine for the secure print function and print count function to reduce the use of paper. To encourage the colleagues using the double-sided printing and we have monthly copy report to monitor the use of paper for assessment
- Set up the paper recycling bins
- To reduce use of paper, using email system for internal communication
- Using the computer fax system to replace the traditional electronic fax machine to receive and send faxes for reducing the use of paper
- In a number of meetings and notices, to encourage employees to save energy
- Set up the power-saving mode at computer
- Setting the standard of temperature to 25 degrees in the switch of Air-conditioning
- Recycled envelopes