Press Releases

For Release November 15, 2008
Contact: K.J. McCorry, CEO
Phone 303-517-5300
Email: kjm@eco-officiency.com

In Honor of America Recycles Day, November 15th,
eco-officiency offers these Paper Recycling and Reduction Tips

(Boulder, CO)—Eco-officiency offers these paper recycling and reduction tips in honor of America Recycles Day, November 15th. U.S. paper producers consume approximately 1 billion trees every year. This amounts to roughly about 735 pounds of paper annually for every American office worker. Further, paper is the No. 1 material that we throw away in our landfills. For every 100 pounds of trash we throw away, 35 pounds is paper.

In order to reduce paper in the office and encourage recycling here are some following tips:

Use recycled paper
Sustainable stock paper uses half the trees of normal stock paper. With tree-free paper alternatives the production itself is more environmental, requiring fewer chemicals and energy. Ask your purchasing manager to switch to one of these virgin paper alternatives for your office.

Label Recycle Bins Clearly
Label recycle bins clearly with big and bold signage or purchase bright colored bins to tag for recycle items. This helps workers when moving fast, to put paper waste in the right receptacle.

Use Xerox GreenPrint software
Xerox has GreenPrint software for its solid ink printers, which analyzes each page of every document sent to the printer and looks for waste characteristics (e.g. pages with just a URL, banner ad, logo, or legal jargon) and then highlights and removes them. GreenPrint says using the software could save the average office more than $90 and 1,400 wasted pages per year.

Print on both sides
Many of the printers today offer an internal function to print on both sides of the paper. Check with your printer manual or information technology consultant and see if you have this option.

Reuse one-sided paper
Provide a location in your copy room and your office for paper that can be reused on the other blank side. Employees can use this paper as scrap paper or as 'test' prints for documents before the final version is finished.

America Recycles Day (ARD) is sponsored by the National Recycling Coalition and is a day that encourages Americas to recycle and buy recycled products.

Eco-officiency, LLC. offers sustainability consulting services based out of Boulder, CO. We provide expert business advisors and eco-living consultants to assist organizations and individuals in becoming more sustainable in their work and personal lives. For more information visit www.eco-officiency.com.

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For Release July 11, 2008
Contact: K.J. McCorry, CEO
Phone 303-517-5300
Email: kjm@eco-officiency.com

 

Productivity and Efficiency Expert Launches Sustainability Consulting Firm
eco-officiency, LLC to ‘green’ both businesses and homes

 

(Boulder, CO)- K.J. McCorry has launched a new sustainability consulting firm, eco-officiency LLC. Eco-officiency will provide expert business advisors and eco-living consultants to assist local Colorado organizations and individuals in becoming more sustainable in their work and personal lives.

Eco-officiency’s business services will work primarily with local Colorado small and medium-sized businesses that want to instill green practices in their business operations but don’t need to hire a full time ‘Corporate Responsibility Officer’ (CRO). Ms. McCorry explains further, “We want to provide expert and trusted advisors that not only help guide a company with a sustainable plan and initiatives, but also assist in implementing and embedding sustainability into the culture of the organization. We want to provide part-time CRO services for organizations that are ready to make sustainability a long-term objective.”

Eco-officiency will also offer ‘eco-living’ consulting services for local Colorado residents who want to create a more eco-friendly/ eco-conscious lifestyle. “Many individuals want to do more to ‘green’ their homes and lifestyle, but don’t have the time to research and implement green solutions by themselves. Eco-officiency wants to be a catalyst and help individuals and families work through those challenges.” says Ms. McCorry.

Ms. McCorry is the current owner of Officiency, Inc. a productivity and efficiency consulting company based out of Boulder, CO. “This is a natural tie-in with my current consulting services. For 12 years, I have been helping organizations streamline their operations to increase efficiency of resources and reduce paper consumption for productivity purposes. I’m now ready to assist organizations even further to become more green and sustainable.” says CEO, K.J. McCorry.

K.J. McCorry has been involved for over 10 years with the Colorado trade associations committed to sustainable business. She served on the board of directors for the Business for Social Responsibility Colorado Chapter (1999-2001), was one of the founders and President of P3 (People, Planet, Profit) Colorado (2001-2004) and now serves as co-President of CORE Colorado (www.corecolorado.org).

For further information visit www.eco-officiency.com.

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