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We’re fast approaching the end of another Green Office Week!  Thank you so much for participating in Green Office Week.  No matter what you did, so long as you keep it up, you’ll be making a real positive difference with immediate effect.

Without a doubt, you’ve helped make UK offices leaner, greener places to work, and for that you should feel very proud.

We’ve gathered some interesting facts and figures below to help you quantify some of the savings (both economic and environmental) you will have made by implementing a range of green activities.

Share the good news with everyone and give yourself and your colleagues a round of applause for all of your efforts, after all, it’s time to celebrate - it’s Feel Good Friday!

• A computer left on overnight uses 1Kwh of electricity so if 1,000 people turned off their computers when they went home during Green Office week, 180 tonnes of CO2 emissions will have been saved (Greening Your Office Guide).
• By turning off office equipment over weekends and bank holidays, you’ll not only be reducing energy usage you could be saving £6,000 each year on average (Carbon Trust).
• If your office turned its lights off overnight even just for one day, you will have saved enough energy to heat water for 1,000 cups of tea (Click Green).
• If you turned down your heating thermostat by 1 degree (and now keep it there!), your company’s annual heating bill may have come down by as much as 10% (Green Offices For Dummies Guide).
• Every UK office worker uses an incredible 35 litres of water every day.  Of that 35 litres used by each employee everyday, 86% is the result of flushing toilets.  If your company fitted water saving devices into the toilet cisterns, you’ll be saving about a litre per flush – that’s 30 litres a day per employee!  (Southern Water).
• Have you reported a dripping tap?  If you did, you will have saved the equivalent of a bathful of water a week.  That can cost more than £900/year in water and wastewater treatment costs (Southern Water / Envirowise).
• Did you make a new friend and car share this Green Office Week?  By sharing your average commute (18 miles), you could save up to 700kg of CO2 a year, according to the Environment Agency, almost twice as much CO2 as recycling.  Car-sharing could also save you an average of £350 a year compared to driving alone (EST).
• The average office worker uses 20,000 sheets of paper a year and generates one tonne of waste every year – that’s 100 black bin bags (Green Offices For Dummies Guide).  So if you’ve started to recycle all of your paper waste, that tonne will save 7,000 gallons of water.  It will also save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, 3 cubic yards of landfill space and 4,000 kilowatts of energy (Envirowise).

Get more hints and tips to help you save more money / resources by downloading your free copy of the Green Offices For Dummies Guide.  Keep up the good work!