Cambridge council staff told to 'Hand over your office supplies'

The team here at Officeprofiles think this is a fantastic idea as well a being a very green idea.

Staff at Cambridge borough Council have been given a stationery and office products amnesty as part of the organisations cost cutting and Eco drives aimed at cutting the stationery budget.
The amnesty brought some interesting items back to the stationery stores including a £50 printing calculator and a book rack worth more than £20 as well as the usual office bits including, binders, envelopes, dividers and spare reams of A4 copier paper. In fact the total amount of A4 paper returned to the stationery stores weighed over 3 tonnes which (if piled on top of each other) would have reached over 117 feet tall!!

The scheme has been seen as a great success both in products returned and also in raising awareness of how the hidden costs of running and office can sometimes lie idle for years in workers drawers and cupboards.