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BOSS Awards Review
Initiative Of The Year: Avery UK

GREEN

OFFICE

CUSTODIANS

Initiative Of The Year Award
Winners, Avery UK

he enthusiasm of Ruth it. It’s something our customers
TPerrin - Avery UK’s Labels now put in their diary: they want
Category Manager - for the to be more involved.”
company’s award-winning It’s clear also that winning
Green Office Week initiative is the BOSS Award has helped to
infectious. As infectious as - she galvanise even more interest
explains - the idea itself has in the initiative: “At the end of
been: “Green Office Week has the Awards dinner, I had a lot
been running for five years now, of people come up to me with
and it’s clear that it has captured questions and ideas about
people’s imagination.” it. It’s also shown us that the
In short, Green Office Week OP industry has embraced
is about encouraging workers Green Office Week. It’s become
across the country to make something that has got legs, has
simple, fun and practical steps got mileage, and is very much
to make their workplace more here to stay. That’s what makes
environmentally-friendly. The it so exciting! We are passionate
initiative provides tips and about it, and we now feel we
inspiration, encouraging not are a custodian of it, rather than
only office workers, but also necessarily its driver.”
others, to think about the small, Avery are already preparing
positive steps that they can each for next year’s Green Office
take to create a more sustainable Week - scheduled for 12-16th
working environment. May 2014 - and has also been
This simple idea of setting working on a Hands Off Day
small, achievable steps that in November 2013, an annual
everyone can take in order to industry event which celebrates
achieve a larger goal collectively office workers protecting and
has been so effective that it is securing the office equipment
now reaching an audience of and tools which are most
10m across the UK. Its basic important to them
mantra is ‘Nobody can do (see www.avery.co.uk/
everything, but we can all do handsoffday).
something!’ As Perrin explains, “A
theme is set for each day of the
week and people really get into

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