Sustainablity In Business.

​ 10 TIPS to Achieving
Sustainability in Your Business

1. Apply the 3 P’S: People, Planet and Prosperity as a guide for holistic sustainable choices that match your interests, needs and values.
2. Implement The 7 R’S of Sustainability: RETHINK, REFUSE, REDUCE, REUSE, REPAIR, ROT, RECYCLE.
3. Use non-toxic cleaning products for healthy workplace. Read the labels.
4. Start a Green Team to enhance your sustainable efforts, to increase staff engagement and morale and minimize cost of education. Sustainability Pathways has Green Team training workshops.
5. Sort trash to maximize landfill diversion to conserve resources. Post signs showing proper bin sorting.
6. Use less paper with paperless/digitized filing systems to save on paper usage and storage to conserve trees. Recycle/Reuse old paper documents as notepads or copy paper for documents that don’t require a clean sheet.
7. Choose alternatives to the “throw away” mentality. For example, use reusable bamboo utensil sets and donate to thrift shops, such as SCRAP https://www.scrap-sf.org/
8. Use your purchasing power to make responsible and sustainable choices for your business equipment and service purchases.
9. Go green to grow your business, attracting those who spend their dollars with companies who are supporting the plant and community.
10. Promote your business for your sustainable efforts by putting your sustainable policy on your website and getting a green certification. Sustainability Pathways is a San Francisco Green Business and can help you get yours.