Carbon Emissions and Small Businesses

Less than 30% of FTSE 250 firms surveyed have a formal plan in place to minimise emissions and improve their energy efficiency.

There are a number of concrete, quick, things that all businesses, small and large, can do to limit carbon emissions:

- Sign up to change over your electricity provider to one that promotes and invests in renewable energy
- become a Fairtrade employer by buying some fairtrade instant coffee in a tin or a big bag of fairtrade tea bags
- use less paper
- when you need to print something out, use recycled paper
- when your toner cartridges are finished, have them reconditioned at shops like Cartridge World (43 Earlsdon Street)
- turn off computer monitors at night
- enable energy-saving functions on all your firm's computers during the day, e.g. "hibernate after 10 minutes of non-use"