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Green Facts
 One office worker can use a quarter ton of materials in a
year--which includes 10,000 pieces of copier paper.
- Heating, cooling and powering office space are responsible
for almost 40% of carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. and
gobble more than 70% of total electricity usage.
- Commuters spew 1.3 billion tons of CO2 a year.
- Computers in the office burn $1 billion worth of electricity
annually--and that's when they're not producing a lick of work.
- Installing automatic shutoffs for lighting (which scarfs up
44% of the electricity used in office buildings.
- Setting computers to power down automatically after 15
minutes of idle time, cutting the machine's energy use 70%.
- Switching from old toilets that use up to 8 gal. per flush
to new ones that use a maximum of 1.6 gal. Toilet flushing is
the single biggest water hog in office buildings nationwide,
using up to 4.8 billion gal. per day.
- Congestion created by people getting to and from work costs
U.S. employers 3.7 billion hours of lost productivity a year,
which adds up to $63.1 billion in wasted time and fuel every
year.
- A typical office disposes of about 350 pounds of wastepaper
per employee per year.
- Once: the number of times that most of the more than 25
billion cartons manufactured in the U.S. are used.
- 55 percent: the amount of water saved by producing recycled
paper as compared to virgin paper. Recycled paper also takes
60-70 percent less energy to produce than paper from virgin
pulp.
- 120: the number of tons of steel saved if every UK office
worker used one less staple a day.
- 8 billion: the number of gallons of gas saved if every
commuter car in the U.S. carried just one more person.
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