To continue our conversation, Eco, Green Business and Marketing expert has several recommendations to help your business become more environmentally friendly:
• Waste is the biggest problem for business.
“ Eliminate Waste: all kinds of waste. It’s a country of abundance, but it makes it easy to just throw things away, when it should be easier to just use less–whether it is wasted electricity or wasted gasoline or wasted time, just eliminate the act of actual physical waste.”
• Don’t bite off more than you can chew from the environment.
Eco feels it is better use less and give more,
“Look at how you can change your business practices so that you’re not taking away more than you’re giving. It’s like this: You can always put back and replace what you’ve taken, or you can find other vendors that do that or that use products that are easily sustained. People talk about sustainability but if you cut down a hardwood tree, it takes 300 years to grow that tree, or you can use the tree that takes 10 years to grow. Use something that is easily replaceable rather than something that takes too long to replace.”
Following these basic steps will not only help you truly enter the green marketplace, it will also save you money as you waste fewer commodities and become more productive.
After all, as Eco points out,
“We only have one planet, we can’t go somewhere else. But once we use our natural resources, they aren’t coming back.”