Our Green Office Works
The negative consequences of global warming continue to be a part of our lives, directly or indirectly, day by day. As Smart Shopping Club, we did not want to be insensitive to these results, both individually and institutionally.
In offices where we spend a significant part of our day and where as many resources as our homes are consumed, hundreds of trees are destroyed without realizing it, due to our little carelessness. Based on this, we looked for ways to create an ecological space in the office environment. In fact, we've seen that it doesn't require very different measures from what we need to do in our homes.
- Our first green application started by choosing our curtains with the feature that we can make the most of sunlight. We have also placed our tables accordingly. When choosing the colors of our walls and tables, we took care to ensure that they were light-colored.
- When using low-energy bulbs, we have made it a habit to turn off the light bulbs.
- We gave up using plastic kitchen utensils by expanding our use of personalized mugs, plates and cutlery.
- Before going out to dinner or long meetings, we started to turn off our computers. At the end of the work, we unplugged the cables of all non-operational devices. We didn't forget to close our windows while the air conditioner was running.
- In order to save paper, we learned to use both sides of photocopy papers and to hide our information on the internet.
- We have started to use the plastic bags that we have received a lot due to our work and cause serious damage to the ecological living environment, as garbage bags, and to recycle the ones that have the recycling feature.
- We received the EU Project Pilot Training named "Green Business is Smart Business" Gogreen, the EU Leonardo da Vinci Multi-Partner Program aiming to increase the knowledge of businesses on green / environmental practices and to ensure that this information is applied by companies.
- With the contributions of İzmir-Çiğli Municipality, we participated in the project of recycling our cardboard waste.
- We contributed to the 7 Tree Forests Project, which was created in cooperation with Çekül and the Ministry of Forestry.
- We applied for the Environment Awards Competition, which is one of the works of İzmir Karşıyaka Municipality to raise awareness and sensitivity towards environmental problems, which is held every year on 5 June World Environment Day. We were deemed worthy of this award in the branch of institutions and organizations in 2013.
While maintaining the sustainability of our green practices, we will always be in search of new green practices. We love green. Future generations have the right to see green at least as much as we do.