Greening B.Y.T.E.
As a progressive youth organization, we find it essential to be eco-friendly in all aspects of our organization.

How we do it:

• Green Office Policy Guidelines
• Green Office Employee Manual
• Green Event Protocol Checklist
• Home vermi-compost start up kits and maintenance information
• Workshops on demand – take action on climate change
• Greening Your Event Team – facilitators can be hired for local events to help implement the above green event’s checklist

Travel & Work
We encourage our staff to opt for sustainable options to get to and from work. We have many cyclists, walkers and transit users. Although we use teleconferencing and web-conferencing whenever possible, sometimes we need to travel outside the Territory if we do, we make sure to offset our flights.

Paper Products
All printing that is done is on post-consumer recycled paper, and we try to limit the paper used. We print documents double-sided as much as possible. We keep our pile of paper that has been printed on one-side to reuse the other side.

Food and Drink
Most of us start our work day with a cup of coffee or tea. We try to ensure this daily routine is sustainable. At BYTE we choose to only use fairly-traded, organic coffee and teas. We have a kettle with an automatic shut-off, to avoid the use of unnecessary electricity. If we must have catering for a meeting or conference, we order fair-trade, organic and locally-grown food as much as possible.

Electricity Consumption
In the office we never leave a light, computer, photocopier or other device running when not in use. As with most offices we rely on our computers for almost everything we do, so we made the conscious effort to switch monitors to LCD.

Office Equipment
Almost all of our furniture and equipment is second hand and we recycle our used computers.

Recycling / Composting
We collect our compost each week, and put it in either or in office vermi-compost or the City Compost units. We also recycle everything possible.