St. Michael's Inspired Care. Inspiring Science.
Save Energy & Reduce Waste! Reinvest in Patient Care
Switch off your lights
Separate garbage & recycling
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Go Electronic
• Turn off the lights in your office, even if you're leaving for a few minutes. It is not true that leaving lights on for a few minutes uses less energy than turning them off and back on again.
Print Double-Sided
Separate garbage from recycling . If garbage is put in a recycling conta iner, all the recyclables become contam inated and are sent to a landfi ll.
In offices, 30% of print jobs are never picked up.
Turn off your computer before you go home
Report tap leaks
If everyone leaves their computers on after work, the energy wasted would be enough to power an average of 300 homes.
A tap that drips once a second wastes 10,000 liters of water per year. That can fill up 33 bathtubs.
~=====Th e average office worker goes through 10,000 sheets of paper per year which is equivalent to one tree.
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