Today is the first day of Green Office Week in Europe. Apparently one in three office workers don’t do anything to help the environment at work, and Green Office Week aims to raise awareness of environmental issues in the workplace. If you register on the site you can download a lot of promotional stuff – posters and the like – and you can also get yourself a free download of a special Green Office for Dummies pdf ebook. You can also follow the team on Twitter for green tips throughout the week.

Listeners to the Emma and Pete Show will know that Pete and I are big on green issues (probably mid-green, rather than dark green, but we try) and since our home is our office we don’t have the same issues as people who think about the environment at home but are struggling to encourage their colleagues at work to do the same.

We’re currently decluttering the house, and depending on what type of business you work for you might find my recent post on recycling tools to be helpful this week.

We can also provide information on recycling old mobile phones if you’ve got any of those kicking around, find you a good price on an OWL monitor if you want to check up on your electricity consumption, and save you £25 if you want to switch your energy supplier to Good Energy.

We were listening to local radio yesterday morning and there was an advert for a scheme for recycling office furniture and ‘surplus materials’ – essentially a type of freecycle arrangement for businesses. Pete made a note of the URL and it’s Eastex – the National Materials Exchange. They’re operating in a limited number of areas at the moment, but hopefully the idea will grow.