Are you the only person in your office that cares about the environment; the lone green guardian trying to turn your office eco? Don’t get disheartened – you can still make a big difference alone. And in time, your colleagues just might come round to your way of thinking.

How do I know? Experience. Having once come from an industry where the CEO didn’t believe in climate change and nothing (at all) was recycled – I couldn’t just sit and watch it any longer. So, yes, I was that person who collected cans and bottles, put them in my car and took them to the recycling facility. I got all paper from the bins to the recycling centre. I tried to point out the hibernate button on laptops.

And so on this went. Yes, you might annoy people. But believe me, when they start seeing just how full the bags of bottles and cans are, they realise just how much waste they’re creating and change their habits.

The accounts department will thank you too. After all, you’re encouraging people to turn stuff off – that means cutting their energy bill. They’re using less paper too, so not so much has to be bought in.

Little by little you can transform your office from an environmental train wreck into an eco paradise (or at least a mini recycling centre). So if you are the only one in the office who cares, don’t give up. You’ll win in the end and the environment (and accountant) will thank you for it.

To help you get started, here’s ten top tips to turning your office green.