Social Responsibility Can Save Money

Our firm's Social Responsibility Committee has been working hard and we have proven a standard Corporate Social Responsiblity (CSR) maxim that being a socially responsible business can save money. Our SR Committee identified our weekly deliveries of water in large plastic bottles for our water coolers as an area in which we could improve our level of CSR.  For businesses that have reliable access to satisfactory munipal water, deliveries of water to the office involve additional truck traffic to our downtown location, truck exhaust  emmisions, use of truck fuel, plastic containers that must be replaced periodically, water and chemicals to sanitize recycled plastic containers for re-use, and so forth.   We converted to a filter system to replace our water coolers with plumbed-in filter spigots dispensing cold and hot filtered water directly from our city water.  Read the full post....