Whats in the trashcan beneath your desk? Ive got an apple core, a used tea bag, and the envelope in which someone mailed me a book. Oops. That last one is recyclable. (Ok, so I could compost the apple core and tea, but we dont compost at work尖et. Im pretty sure Susans going to start stashing her little under the kitchen sink any day now. Which Im all for. Unless they escape. In which case I dont know anything about them.) If you were to ask an employee at Googles London office that question, she wouldnt have to look before answering. Thats because the company has removed under-desk trash bins in an effort to up the recycling at the office.
Its working: Recycling rates have jumped 50 percent. It makes people aware of what theyre doing, Benjamin Kott, Googles operations manager for green business practices in Europe, told 's Jeffrey Marlow. Rather than automatically throwing a bottle in with the landfill waste, they see theres a choice and must make a conscious decision to recycle.
Who knows, maybe forcing people to walk to a central location to chuck their garbage and recyclables might cut down on waste overall. At the very least, this is one idea worth recycling.
