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Eco-friendly business start-up management can help save money as well as the planet, one expert has emphasised.
Charlotte High is the programme manager for Smartworks, the SME support project of environmental charity Global Action Plan.
She explained that "going green" could actually be "highly cost effective for SMEs - and could be achieved through low-cost and even no-cost measures.
Ms High said that cutting down on waste could make a real financial difference: "Businesses weve worked with have made significant savings through looking at their operations and identifying energy and waste efficiencies."
She highlighted the case of "an office we worked with recently [that] managed to reduce its annual paper consumption by 28 per cent, saving £800 a year in itself".
Hugh Jones, solutions project director at the Carbon Trust, recently emphasised that around 40 per cent of the UKs annual carbon emissions were being produced by business.
Research recently published by the Carbon Trust identified that the use of advanced metering by SMEs could save 2.5 million tonnes of CO2 emissions per year - and also provide a net financial benefit to the UK economy.
Recent developments in company legislation, such as the recent WEEE Directive from the EU, have forced many small businesses to take a closer look at the ways in which they dispose of waste.
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