• Conservation Tips for Businesses .  This fact sheet covers a number of environmental areas including toxics reduction, energy efficiency and basic conservation activities.
• Greening Your Office and Saving Money  (pdf) This fact sheet provides basic information that anyone can use to reduce waste in a business office.
• Pollution Prevention: What You Can Do At Your Facility .  This publication takes you through the various areas in a typical facility where there is potential for pollution. It provides information and techniques for preventing pollution at the source. (pdf)
• Reducing Corrugated Cardboard Waste .  Corrugated cardboard is a common packing material that many businesses accumulate as waste. This fact sheet provides useful information on how you may be able to reduce that waste or collect it for recycling.
• Reducing Office Paper Waste .  This fact sheet includes tips that any office can use to reduce the amount of office paper waste it generates. It also includes the basics for setting up a paper recycling program.
• Waste Reduction/Pollution Prevention: Checklist and Glossary .  This fact sheet contains common waste reduction practices that can be applied in any business and at most facilities. The glossary contains definitions of terms often used in discussions of pollution prevention and waste reduction. (pdf)

Other Resources

The following sites are neither endorsed nor supported by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. This list is provided to help you find more information about recycling.     

• Create a Paper Recycling Poster  - This site, sponsered by the Paper Industry Association Council, allows you to customize a standard paper recycling poster that can be printed and used in your office.  More information about paper recycling is available on this site.
• How to Operate as an Environmentally Aware Organization and Reduce or Eliminate Your Carbon Footprint  This 2007, eleven page guide provides basic steps any company can take to reduce their carbon footprint.  Developed by Guidance Solutions, Inc., a California consulting company.
• Implementation Guide for Small Business Recycling Coops - Northeast Recycling Council. This guide is intended to assist local recycling coordinators and recycling service providers, small businesses, and business service organizations in obtaining recycling services cooperatively and economically. The guide is based upon pilot programs implemented in the Northeast spanning three years in the late 1990's.
• Office Paper Reduction , California Integrated Waste Management Board website containing tips and resources for reducing paper and other office waste.
• Paper Calculator.org .  This site, sponsored by the Environmental Defense Fund, can calculate the environmental benefit for buying recycled paper.  You must agree to cite the Environmental Defense Fund when using these figures. 
• Recycling at Work . This is a publication of the National Office paper Recycling Project sponsored by the US Conference of Mayors. It includes information about Clean Your Files Day, the Buy Recycled Training Institute and more.
• Reducing Waste in the Workplace . By clicking on the link to the left, labeled "At the Office," you will see many tips and economic as well as environmental reasons for reducing waste in your office.
• Shopping Center: America's Marketplace Recycles . This U.S. EPA website contains resources to assist shopping centers and malls to recycle and reduce waste.
• Sustainable Office Toolkit .  From the State of Georgia, this toolkit includes modules for waste reduction, environmetnally preferable purchasing, energy conservation, water conservation, alternative transportation, green building and corporat social responsibility.  Also included are steps to take when developing a sustainable business program. 
• Waste at Work: Prevention Strategies for the Bottom Line . By INFORM, Inc.,1999, "This handbook explains how businesses (as well as government agencies) can reduce waste while bringing down their disposal, purchasing, and operational costs. It provides specific strategies on preventing waste in the work areas that make up the typical business-- offices; food services; shipping and receiving; janitorial services; and building, landscape, and vehicle maintenance. ... A section on procurement describes the attributes to look for when shopping for products that produce less waste and how to buy, store, use, and dispose of products to reduce or eliminate waste."