Friday, August 28, 2009

Practical Tips On How To Make Your Office Design Environment Friendly

By Carry Dixon

With more pollutants in the atmosphere and rapid deforestation, people have awakened to the critical scenario and are gearing up towards preserving nature. The latest development in the universal go-green campaign is the use of green office furniture, and this has excellent potential to make organizations eco-friendly.

Setting up of modular offices can go a long way in conservation of environment. Much less material is needed to set up such offices, and thus they help protect the cutting of trees. Modular offices save not only the trees but also the funds that a company has to invest for a new set up. Modular offices are much inexpensive than the conventional offices and as the space they occupy is smaller, the rent comes out to be lesser too.

An office that uses reusable or second hand furniture makes a great contribution towards ecological conservation. This kind of furniture usually requires only small changes and fulfils the requirements of most offices comfortably. The uncertain economic climate has brought a lot of businesses to the edge of liquidation and they are selling off their furniture for a pittance, and this yields a big opportunity for upcoming firms. Using such furniture saves trees from being cut down and mines from being extracted to build new furniture.

Even entirely new furniture can be green furniture if certain considerations are kept in mind. The furniture materials must be reusable and must have been manufactured locally so that transportation would not cause heavy emissions.

Never buy furniture with foams whose production has released toxic chemicals like CFCs into the atmosphere, which are notorious for depleting the ozone layer. The furniture must have been created from trees with maturity period of less than 10 years as they lessen the influence on the environment. Lastly, you must be frugal and purchase only the necessary furniture that would satisfy your needs.

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