Business produces 40% of the UK’s carbon emission, as opposed to only 27% for households.

Much of the advice for improving the environment at your workplace is just the same as the advice for the rest of life. The only difference is, it is easy to sit back and put the blame on your employer if things aren’t as green at work as they might be, when in fact putting pressure on your employer rather than blame will be much more effective in getting things changed.

Some things, like your company’s attitude to disposables and recycling, are fairly obvious, but in other ways it can be more difficult to find out what your company does to be greener. Ask if they have an environmental policy, and if you can see it (there should be no reason why you can’t see it if they actually have one – they will want it to be public knowledge). If they don’t have one, offering to form an environmental committee is a way not only of pushing the issue, but also of involving colleagues and widening environmental awareness. Or how about suggesting they appoint “green ambassadors” in each office or section?

And its not just what your company does, its how you behave at work: how you get to work, the things you bring to work and buy, the way you dispose of things, cutting down on waste, and so forth.