Going green in 2025: Seven tips for your business

Seven tips for making your business greener in 2025

1. Find out your carbon footprint

If you calculate your current carbon emissions for your business, you can understand your baseline and start to track your progress over time. If you have an account with Zellar, they can show your carbon footprint through your personalised dashboard on their website.

2. Build a sustainability action plan

Having a plan in place for your business will help you tackle how to reduce energy, water and waste usage. Zellar makes it easy for you to share your business’ sustainability plans with existing and potential employees and customers. This can help you to retain and attract the best talent and business.

3. Conduct an energy audit

Conduct an energy audit to identify where and how energy usage could be reduced across your business. Installing green technology, such as a SMART meter, could reduce your energy use by up to 15% and pay for itself in just one year. Zellar helps to generate bespoke energy checklists for your business. They monitor and track that regular checks are being made to help you cut costs and emissions.

4. Reduce waste

Encourage your employees to reduce, reuse and recycle. You can set up recycling bins in the workplace, clearly labelling what should go in each bin. Zellar has partnered with Biffa to offer useful tips for businesses. They share useful resources like Biffa’s guide on what can be recycled.

5. Invest in green technology

Set aside a budget to invest in long term green technologies that will help to lower your energy usage and your bills, like solar panels. Zellar offers sector-based recommendations on what technology to invest in and they can connect you with experts for free.

6. Switch to green energy

You’ll need to switch to a green energy provider to significantly reduce your carbon emissions. Zellar helps you to compare energy providers and switch providers with no added broker fees.

7. Promote sustainable transport

Encourage your employees to use public transportation such as cycling to work or sharing car journeys. You could provide incentives for using sustainable transport options, like discounted rail cards or electric vehicle charging points to use at work. You could also consider remote work options to reduce the need for daily commutes.