Green your Office with Quality Recycled Office Furniture

When you look around an office to see how 'green' it is you think of the paper, the energy use, the building, the disposable products etc but how many of you look at the furniture?

Where did it come from? Where will it go when it is no longer wanted or needed?

Unfortunately now the vast majority may well end up in land fill along with old shop fittings, catering furniture and a whole range of other business furniture and equipment.

Often the only way to buy quality office furniture in the South West is to buy new. Especially when buying larger quantities of furniture. Despite all the quality items being dumped into Devon landfill every year. Working with an office furniture company in another part of the UK the owners of Devon Actively Green were so shocked by the vast amount of furniture a university had designated to land fill so they could start again with new items that they set about to change things.

Upon moving to Devon they set up Devon Actively Green to try to redress the balance, starting on a small scale with a small home office and storage facilities.

Now there is a local alternative to buying new. Devon actively Green can supply businesses with quality second hand goods that would otherwise have ended up in land fill at a fraction of the price of buying new. Benefiting the customer in a number of ways:

• more cost effective use of their budget
  
• quite often will be buying a far better quality items than could have been afforded if bought new,
  
• fulfilling their environmental obligations by:
  I. not adding to the energy used in the production of new furniture and
  II. reducing the impact on the countryside by helping keep perfectly good items out of landfill.

So there is the solution to where your ‘green’ furniture should come from but where does it go when you are done with it?

The economy has changed the way used business goods are handled. There is a glut of furniture no longer needed and people are struggling to sell it to anyone else. Office furniture companies no longer want to buy it from you as they have so much already. So people are now being paid to clear offices and businesses, owners then feel their liability is discharged as the items are now in the care of someone else. The fact is they may well end up in land fill along with the tons and tons that go there every year.

At Devon Actively Green they are committed to keeping the county green. The business prides itself on sending virtually nothing to landfill. Items that cannot be sold are broken down into their component parts and recycled in the most appropriate way. For some items this even means storage until a cost effective solution can be found.

Unfortunately even with all the talk of recycling and green living it can be incredibly hard to recycle some items. Most companies do not have the means to strip down furniture and then do not have the time to spend searching for the most cost effective recycler for each of the parts. To make matters worse the prices paid in the South West by scrap metal merchants for example are way below that of the South East.

Devon is a beautiful county that prides itself on its wonderful countryside and environmentally conscious attitude but even here there are tons of items regularly being dumped into landfill, even by companies committed to green values. It is done because it is believed to be the most cost effective and easiest way of dealing with the issue. If it isn’t easy most businesses do not have the time or funds to find an alternative.

Devon Actively Green is that alternative and are living proof that it is possible to mix business and ethics and still be a real and practical solution to a major environmental problem. Charging realistic and affordable prices to make it possible for every business no matter how small or large to join in and really be proud of what they are achieving for Devon.

Devon Actively Green is based just outside Honiton, Devon. Covering the whole of Devon and beyond. For further details visit the Devon Actively Green website at: www.actively-green.co.uk