Maximise your impact to increase recycling DANIEL

Increasing recycling Glass Paper amnesty WEEE amnesty Building Clearances

Money Saving Bin capacity audit

Questions… Have you ever felt like this…. Have you got targets/ objectives? What stops you getting to them? What are your main problems?

Main point of the session Time is limited resource Waste time management and increasing useful time Love of bustle is not industry. - Seneca We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don’t feel that anymore. - Oprah Winfrey

Content 5 ways to increase recycling and save costs for free AKA Maximise your impact as you are the only one pushing forward Learning from other’s success and failure Distraction Elimination Taking action Tools

Learning from others

Not just best practice- but failures “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and Nobel prize winner “Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.”- Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA, worlds largest furniture brand “If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.” - Frank Wilczek, 2004 Nobel Prize winner in physics

Sample questions What is the initiative? What problems were you facing before initiative? How do/did you use the initiative at your organisation? What has worked well at your organisation? What has been challenging at your organisation? Why did it succeed or fail? What benefits does the initiative bring for you? What features do you like? What could be improved? What would you do better next time?

Distraction elimination

productivity Turn off auto message! Keep closed- access at certain times only Batch process Inbox empty- guarantees you have seen everything ◦Filters and rules ◦sanebox Auto responder

Popular auto filters Unsubscribe Cc;d People Groups Words eg “Minutes” Sources/ organisations Flag “Junk”

Auto responder example SUBJECT: Thanks I Received Your Dear Friends and Colleagues, Due to XXXXX, I check twice daily at 9:00 AM and 2:00 PM Monday-Thursday. I respond to urgent at those times and endeavour to respond to all other once a week, on Friday at XXX If you require urgent assistance that cannot wait, please contact me via phone at XXXX. Thank you for understanding this move to more efficiency and effectiveness. It helps me accomplish more to serve you better and increase recycling on campus. Sincerely, Waste Manager

Working from home Trial Be prepared to work with focus and produce better results Use the time saved to do what you like Asana- tool demo Eggtimer focus tool

Taking action

“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and the need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” Herbert Simon, recipient of the Nobel Memorial prize in economics and the A.M. Turing award, “Nobel Prize of computer science”

Taking action “The perfect is the enemy of the good” Voltaire “Many a false step was made by standing still”. - Fortune cookie “Named must your fear be before banish it you can.” - Yoda, from Star Wars: the Empire Strikes Back “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action”. - Benjamin Disraeli, former British Prime Minister

“It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission” One of computer programming pioneers, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper Or Banksy

Paredo Principle

”20% of the effort produces 80% of the results; however, 20% of the results consumes 80% of the effort.” Focus primarily on those efforts that produce 80% of the results and forgo the rest. More time to focus on the most important tasks. We should stop saying “yes” to tasks that bring low or almost no result. How do you know which activities bring the most benefit? Choose the ones that are most directly related to increasing recycling or saving money- or your main objective

“I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” - Herbert Bayard Swope, American editor and journalist; first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize

Tools & refs

Sanebox ( ) Asana (task management and work from home) e.ggtimer.com or any timers (focus) Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris