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80% of staff want more sustainable
workplaces Eight out of 10 office employees would like their workplace to be more environmentally-friendly, according to a new survey from Essity.
Around 60% believe their colleagues would also react positively to more eco-friendly practices by employers. 46% also believe the green initiatives taken by their bosses are often an afterthought.
Top workplace sustainability gripes among staff members include a lack of food waste bins, computers left turned on all day and night, no options for recycling used paper towels, and no provision for charging electric cars.
Lee Radki, Essity Sales Manager, said: “Over the past 18 months there has been a definite shift in our general attitudes towards how to be environmentally friendly. People seem to be taking the issue more seriously than ever before.
“Working from home has prompted people to give more thought to their own actions towards the future of the planet, and it seems many had assumed their employers would do the same. We spend so much time in the workplace that it's a perfect place to set an example.”
The Essity survey of 2000 office workers was held to mark the UK launch of Tork PaperCircle, the world’s first recycling service for paper towels. Tork PaperCircle enables businesses to reduce their environmental footprint by 40% by creating a closed loop system for used washroom hand towels. These are collected by Tork PaperCircle sustainability partners and taken to local recycling centres, where they are turned into other tissue products.
AstraZeneca – the multinational pharmaceutical company behind one of the world’s most widely-administered COVID-19 vaccines – was among the UK’s first Tork PaperCircle customers. In November 2021 the service was showcased at COP26, the leading global climate change summit held at Glasgow’s Scottish Event Campus.
i-team appoints Newhall in Wales
i-team embassy UK’s new structure continues to take shape and strengthen in the UK with the appointment of Newhall Janitorial as official member for Wales.
Newhall will add the title of ‘i-team Wales’ to their building in this monumental moment, and will cover the entirety of Wales in terms of Sales and Service.
Stuart Powell, Sales Director at Newhall, stated: “Newhall Janitorial are very excited by the opportunities that the i-team range can bring our customers. There is real innovation in the portfolio, and this will help bolster Newhall’s reputation as a trusted supply partner across Wales. We are also investing in the infrastructure to make this project a real success.”
If you’re based in Wales and looking for innovative cleaning solutions from i-team global, including the latest i-mop
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Other workplace gripes in the study included a failure to introduce car-sharing drives, a lack of cycle-to-work schemes, and a shortage of bicycle storage facilities, with 27% of respondents calling on employers to encourage green commuting. Staff members also complained about electric hand dryers using energy in the washrooms and the provision of single-use water cups. 48% believed that cost concerns were preventing their employers from encouraging more sustainable practices.
TOP ECO-UNFRIENDLY PRACTICES STILL SEEN IN BRITISH OFFICES
1. No food waste bin 2. People putting food in the general waste 3. People mixing recycling 4. Computers always being connected to charging cables 5. Lights buzzing all day 6. Computers left on at night 7. No electric car charging ports 8. No option to recycle used paper towels 9. The printer endlessly churning out paper
10. No incentive to encourage people to use electric vehicles
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