Getting Recycle Works Certified

Hello, Green Team!
So I know I mentioned in the past that I thought we should look into getting Recycle Works Certified-- I began some preliminary inquiries into figuring out how to do so. I would love to talk next meeting about recruiting help for this.

To begin, I wrote to Christina in HR who has headed up their certification in the past and I wanted to include all the information she gave me. I have copied & pasted the specifics of her email below. Perhaps people can take a look and start brainstorming or thinking of ways to help aid this process?

From Christina...

In getting started there a steps you can take in your office as well as practices to maintain such as:

-Making sure each individual work station as well as communal work stations have a receptacle for recycling
-Create a Purchasing Policy if your office does not already have one
-Make sure all employees fully log out and turn off computers, calculators, speakers, etc when leaving for the day
-Make sure lights are turned off when room is not in use
-Are your printers/copiers set to duplex (as confidentiality needs permit)
-Communicating through phone, e-mail, white boards for meeting agendas, etc to reduce paper use
-Reusing office supplies and using PSU Recycles Office BEFORE purchasing new supplies
-Using durable dishware instead of paper products
-Consider ordering durable PSU name tags instead of using sticker name tags for any events held and/or attended by your office staff.

These are just some practices that we have had in place for years that go along with being as green as possible while being a very paper heavy department. PSU also has the benefit of providing subsidy to employees who walk, bike, carpool, or take public transit to/from work. We as HR also wrote a Living Green Policy for our office which includes what we do now and what our future goals are. All of the information above will help make the application process smooth and easy.

After compiling information of what your office already does and working on things that could be added, you will need to complete and submit the RecycleWorks Award Application. Go to www.portlandonline.com/osd to complete an application. Your direct contact will be with Pete Chism who is the Business Recycling Specialist. (pchism@ci.portland.or.us). If you have any questions, he is your contact.
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Any thoughts about this?! Thanks, everyone!