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How to Raise Staff Awareness of New Recycling Systems
There are a number of ways in which you can raise staff awareness of new recycling practices within your business. This will help to prevent any barriers that may discourage staff from adopting new systems. The following examples highlight the range of options for raising awareness of and encouraging participation in recycling at work.
- Ensure that all levels of the company are willing to participate in any new programme of reuse or recycling.
- There may be a group of individuals within your business that has a positive and proactive approach to recycling, and may be willing to form a recycling team to raise awareness amongst other staff. Working together and having support from other team members will help them to motivate each other.
- Make sure that all employees feel involved, as lack of involvement can sometimes act as a potential barrier that prevents everyone from taking part in a new scheme. A variety of communication techniques can be used to involve employees including:
- Meetings
- Team working
- Awareness raising posters
- Publicising your success to staff, for example; publishing monthly figures of how much waste you are recycling
- Rewarding staff for their successes
If you successfully implement a recycling scheme into your business, you may want to consider taking further steps to minimise or prevent the business waste that you produce. Waste that is not created in the first place does not need to be reused, recycled or disposed of. Therefore reducing or preventing generation of waste is the most efficient and cost-effective way to deal with your business waste.
Our Case Studies Section contains links to information on a number of different types of businesses that have successfully minimised their waste and achieved long-term cost benefits.
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