Green Kitchen Supplies For The Office

I’m here to get you thinking about a few small, easy steps you can take to help “green” your office kitchens. Of course, we know it’s best for us all to limit our use of single-use items. Common single-use items may be small, but their cumulative impact on our environment is large. Keeping your own reusable dishes, utensils, and straws in your personal office or in the office kitchen is really the best practice, but it’s not always feasible to rely solely on reusable items in every situation. So here are some options to consider for disposable items that are more sustainable when reusable isn’t an option. Products like these can help reduce your environmental impact, including reducing the carbon, energy, and water that go into our raw materials, the manufacturing process, and transportation and shipping.

Cups

These cups from EarthChoice have the recycling code 1 and so they are recyclable through single stream recycling. If you are not using reusable bottles or cups, these are a better alternative than the non-recyclable products that we so often see. Over 85% of EarthChoice’s items are produced in plants located in the United States and so they offer a smaller environmental transportation footprint compared to similar products imported from other countries.

Utensils

Traditional single-use cutlery is made from unsustainable virgin plastic. These utensils from EcoProducts are made from 100% Post-Consumer Recycled Content. This recycled content cutlery is a good environmental solution that can help keep waste out of landfills because instead of heading straight to the landfill, old materials were repurposed to create these new products.

Plates and Bowls

These sugarcane dishes are made from 100% reclaimed and renewable sugarcane fiber, which is a rapidly renewable resource as opposed to oil, foam, or virgin paper. These sugarcane products are also compostable in commercial compost facilities!

Napkins

These napkins from Seventh Generation are made from 100% recycled paper. When using products made from recycled materials such as these, you are making an impact by saving energy, water, and trees.