How do you motivate kids to eat their veggies, or drink their milk or brush their teeth? You make it interesting. In essence, many office staff have the same mentality when it comes to things that don’t seem to make sense, or require too much time. If you’re trying to get your business, company, office, workplace or organization to recycle more, here are some ideas you might want to try. 

Instead of just hitting them with the facts as to why recycling is great, try using some examples. The Trash Vortex as it is commonly called is a great way to start. Many times people think that garbage just affects the land but is not out at sea, this whoever suggests otherwise. 

If you’re very creative, try making something out of recycled material. Art is a classic example. If you’ve ever visited new eco-friendly parks or other major parks around the world, you will see a myriad of sculptures that have been put together with scrap metal. No need to be artistic at heart, but simple art created out of recycled material is a great way to raise money and awareness for the need to recycle. 

Few things are as effective as petitions. Don’t ask people to petition the government to do something, rather petition them to recycle a certain percent of their waste weekly, and provide the numbers. Many people are overwhelmed by the demands of recycling unless it is made simple. Instead of asking them to recycle every piece of plastic, ask them to recycle just 10% of their plastic to begin with, and show the mathematical calculations of what could be saved if they did. 

Almost everyone will agree that charity organizations do an awesome work. Incorporate this idea in your effort. Get people/organizations to sponsor charity work. For example, get promises from them to donate a certain amount of money to their favourite charity or a specific charity for every pound of waste you are able to recycle. 

Last but not least, nothing works as well as statistics. 

Many times people fail to do things because they are not aware of the stats involved. It was effective in millions of people quitting smoking, driving under the influence and even more people eating healthy. Believe it or not, most people think that one person will not make a difference. You need to show them otherwise. Show them how much energy, trees, etc. they can save if they decide to recycle. You just might grab their attention.

Green Deeds Ltd provides specialised office recycling services to offices in two regions of the UK. To find out more please visit http://www.recycleofficewaste.co.uk
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This April the fantastic UK AWARE exhibition will be taking place at London Olympia. UK AWARE is the UK’s only green and ethical lifestyle exhibition, which invites normal people to come together, with a view to making a difference to climate change.

As a largely social enterprise UK AWARE unites businesses, organisations and individuals and gives them a forum to share advice on living and working more sustainably, without having to sacrifice lifestyle or comfort.

Various products and services are exhibited over the 2 day event – all of which showcase ways to help to live a greener lifestyle. Areas covered include all sorts, from sustainable fashion and beauty to green motor-vehicles. And it isn’t just small, independent businesses choosing to take advantage of this eco-opportunity. More established companies and charities, including BT and Actionaid, are also on hand to advise the 15,000 visitors expected to attend the event.

This year visitors will be treated to all manner of ingenious innovations and developments, including Hubcap Creatures (sculptures made from recycled hubcaps), Bubblehouse Worms (wormfarms that ‘promote global worming’), Twinkes (futuristic light electric/pedal powered mobiles) and many more.

UK AWARE is now in its third year and, as the UK’s only green and ethical lifestyle exhibition it has thrived where all others have failed. As such it attracts both visitors and exhibitors from far and wide. So the issue they faced was where to put them all…

UK AWARE are the first to admit that hotels are notoriously bad for the environment but the Campaign Against Climate Change also bemoans the situation. In 2007 they reported that hotels were responsible for around 2% of the UK’s carbon emissions. Just thinking about the amount of energy wasted on air conditioning, in hotel kitchens and thanks to the enormous amounts of laundry a hotel gets through – is enough to make your eyes water.

Many hotel chains are trying to rectify things but progress is relatively slow. So the organisers of UK AWARE have put forward an alternative solution for out-of-towners who are keen to attend the event, Crashpadding. They suggest that people visit Crashpadder.com to find accommodation that is not only eco-friendly but budget-friendly too.

The basic premise of  Crashpadder – along with other sites like it – is that it is preferable to stay with a friendly local in their spare room than to book a bed in an uncomfortable hostel or an over-priced, environmentally unsound hotel.

The science behind it is pretty simple, while hotels have to maintain rooms and services that are often left unoccupied and wasted, people’s homes are always in use and as such it makes very little difference to the environment to pop an extra person under the same roof.   

The principle of opening your home to strangers in the spirit of good will and collaboration obviously ties in with the principles of UK AWARE. Both are hoping to make the world a better and friendlier place, and allow us to move through it in as positive a way as we possibly can.

To find out more about the UK AWARE event, arrange tickets or even book an exhibition slot for your business or organisation why not visit the UK AWARE website, www.ukaware.com.

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