Whether you work at home or at an office, going green doesn’t have to add more work to your already busy schedule. Here are some insider tips to help you be eco-friendly at work.

Junk Mail: Sign-up at greendimes.com to have as much as 90% of your junk mail stopped and 10 trees planted on your behalf. For unsolicited mail that does sneak, write “return to sender” on the envelope and drop it in the mail; in most cases, the sender will need to pay the return postage. Junk mail revenge!

Go Laptop: Desktop computers hog up room and energy when turned on; they use about 300% more energy than lightweight laptop computers.
More eco-computing tips:

1. Remove the screen saver and activate the “sleep mode” so it turns off when not in use.
2. Break the habit of keeping the Internet on all the time; logging off helps conserve energy since surfing the Web uses the most energy.
3. Recycle your old PC when it’s time. Drop if off at Staples and pay a small fee to have it properly recycled.
   

Recycle Electronic Waste: Collect stray cables, cords, scratched CDs, diskettes, cell phones, VHS tapes, broken keyboards, and other electronic waste and recycle it. Pack and ship up to 20 pounds of electronic trash to Green Disk for just $6.95. greendisk.com