Macmillan Holdings, LLC. Make It Green Girl, QDnow, and Quick and Dirty Tips are trademarks of Macmillan Holdings, LLC. Help make your office into a green office. Colleen sampleCategory And don't forget about the chair your sitting in! Encourage your company to invest in green ergonomic chairs. Not only will you be doing something good for the environment, you'll also help get rid of aches and pains and increase productivity and morale. Check out Neutral Posture chairs at www.NeutralPosture.com. The use of recycled materials is something the ergonomics seating manufacturer encourages and practices. It carefully monitors the level of recycled materials to ensure their maximum use without affecting quality strength, quality, and durability. Minus paint, foam and fabric, Neutral Posture products are basically 100% recyclable. If calculated by weight rather than component count, which is the standard used for environmental burden, the chair yields approximately 95% recyclable materials. And, utilizing sturdy boxes to ensure prompt, intact delivery of Neutral Posture products is one of the ways in which the company serves its customers best. Its cardboard shipping boxes are produced from 45% recycled material, and 100% of the materials come from renewable pulp sources. For large orders, customers can opt to blanket wrap their chairs, which totally eliminates packing waste, or could choose to use a box made from 100% recycled materials for an upcharge. Additionally, all cardboard packaging received in our shipping & receiving department is recycled once the contents have been unpacked for storage or use. And the company has established agreements with its metal vendors to deliver products in gaylords (large bins) that can be returned and reused and to use bulk packaging wherever possible, eliminating the need for cardboard boxes altogether. http://greengirl.quickanddirtytips.com/green-office.aspx ?commentid=16312#Comments http://greengirl.quickanddirtytips.com/green-office.aspx ?commentid=16312#Comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:50:09 GMT Marc Naimark sampleCategory @Ruth: clearly your computer was not really off, but was in some sort of standby or sleep mode. Check your power options and adjust to allow you to turn the laptop off. @Anna: I can't agree with you when you say that more people using post-consumer recycled paper will bring the costs down. There is a real limit today on the supply of the raw material for such paper, and increased consumption is more likely to raise costs than to lower them. The fundamental sticking point for recycled paper production is not so much the paper mills, which can be converted to recycle, but this raw material. A better way to bring down costs is to work to ensure that your local community has an effective recyling program that allows for waste paper collection. http://greengirl.quickanddirtytips.com/green-office.aspx ?commentid=13108#Comments http://greengirl.quickanddirtytips.com/green-office.aspx ?commentid=13108#Comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:31:19 GMT Ruth Blair sampleCategory I tried unplugging/turning off my power cord at home, but my husband discovered that my laptop got confused. It pulled power from the battery since the power cord wasn't getting any, and therefore drained the battery, even though the computer was off. Be careful before leaving things plugged in to an unplugged power strip. http://greengirl.quickanddirtytips.com/green-office.aspx ?commentid=13107#Comments http://greengirl.quickanddirtytips.com/green-office.aspx ?commentid=13107#Comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:07:22 GMT Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:50:09 GMT http://greengirl.quickanddirtytips.com/green-office.aspx feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Managing Editor) feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Webmaster) en-us