All commercial and industrial companies want to decrease their carbon footprint and reduce waste. While some view a reduction in waste as a difficulty, it’s actually quite simple to use less and shrink your consumption.

However, we’re not suggesting that you go “all in” and declare yourself carbon neutral, or that you reduce your CO2 emissions by 100%, but there are several ways that you can help lessen waste and reduce your carbon footprint.

Here are three ways that your commercial or industrial business can reduce its carbon footprint in 2016.

1. Know where you stand on carbon waste and start from there. It’s difficult to reduce if you don’t know what you use. Find out what sort of emissions your buildings emit and start setting up a strategy. Measuring your carbon footprint will help you set up a plan to reduce it. Then, after you outline a plan of attack, you can begin the next phase.

2. Look for solid reduction opportunities and put that plan in place. A handy strategy is to identify low to no-cost methods of reduction. For example:

– Reduce heating and cooling bills by setting up a waste reduction strategy on temperature settings and usage.

– Place lights on a timer or install sensors.

– Replace old lighting fixtures with energy-efficient LED bulbs.

3. Upgrade outdated systems with newer energy-conscious versions. Simple tricks that lead to less waste carry more weight than you’d imagine. For instance:

– Place darkened screen films over windows to cut cooling costs in summer.

– Consider using solar panels and wind power to use less energy altogether.

– Upgrade your company vehicles to use renewable sources of fuel will reduce our dependency on fossil fuels.