How Businesses Can Go Green in Tampa

The Daily Loaf offers tips on how companies can save green lands, energy, and money doing these simple things.

* The energy we save when we recycle one glass bottle is enough to light a light bulb for four hours.

* Every ton of paper that is recycled saves 17 trees.

* Recycling prevents habitat destruction, loss of biodiversity, and soil erosion associated with logging and mining. This will help future generations to have an environment that has resources for their use like what this current generation has.

* It is important to reduce our reliance on foreign oil. Recycling helps us do that by saving energy.

* It can help to save money if the company pays for waste management to pick up the garbage every day like my place of employment because there is so much to recycle that it will greatly decrease the amount of trash.

* If you think your company cant recycling anything, please check out 50 things you can recycle! That you might not know about.

Businesses interested in going green can contact the City of Tampa. Businesses will have to meet requirements and lower it's carbon footprint.

Here are green businesses you can check out.

Java Planet Organic Coffee Roasters

Cafe Dufrain

Grass Root

Intensity Academy Gourmet Sauces

Pixie Gas

3 Boys Farm

Blue Lotus Day Spa