Duties of an eco-supporter
An eco-supporter promotes and encourages others to adopt an environmentally friendly culture in the workplace.
What does an eco-supporter do?
The main duty of an eco-supporter is to promote an environmentally friendly operating culture and attitudes within their own work community by encouraging and motivating other staff to make environmentally friendly choices. An eco-supporter does not need to have any previous experience in environmental matters, as they will be trained for the duties, which they will manage alongside their other work duties.
The eco-supporter identifies and addresses areas for development in their workplace and encourages the work community to do the same. They carry out a situation assessment in the workplace and draw up an action plan that the whole work community commits to. Effective eco-support activity requires the whole work community to take environmental matters into account and to support the eco-supporter in their work. Customers and clients can also be included in eco-support activities and the promotion of environmental matters, for example in schools and daycare centres.
Eco-supporter…
- Gets trained in the eco-support activity’s basic training and further develops their own environmental competence through the further eco-support training offered.
- Assesses the state of environmental matters and the development needs in their workplace in cooperation with their supervisor and colleagues.
- Participates in setting environmental targets for their workplace together with their supervisor and colleagues.
- Guides and encourages their colleagues to act in an environmentally responsible way, promoting things such as saving energy and energy efficiency, reducing the amount of waste and sorting it, and making sustainable mobility and food choices.
- Manages the monitoring, assessment and reporting of the implementation of environmental objectives together with their supervisor.
- Reports on the progress of environmental objectives to their work community.
- Networks with other eco-supporters and the City’s specialists promoting environmental matters.
Examples of eco-support activities
The eco-support activity has a ‘tip bank’ – a database where you can find examples of the different kinds of eco-actions that could be applied at workplaces.
Read more about eco-actions