Office workers in the UK are leaving green activities to others while also lacking faith in their company's environmental policies, new research suggests.

Some ten per cent of employees surveyed by Cannon stated that being environmentally-friendly was their responsibility while at work, with 30 per cent stating that company bosses should take control of environmental policy, according to a report on vnunet.com

Canon estimates that office workers unnecessarily throw away an average of eight pages of A4 paper every day, which works out at 120 million pages that did not need to be printed in the first place.

"These results do not paint a good picture in offices up and down the country and it is shocking to see just how disinterested UK workers seemingly are when it comes to doing their bit to protect the environment," commented Andy Vickers, managing director of Canon UK & Ireland.

Other findings showed that 42 per cent of employees believe that if their company has got a green strategy in place, it is only for show.

Recent findings from the Green Electronics Council found that electronic equipment that carries the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment environmental label have seen sales double in the past year.

According to a recent survey by Connect, the two biggest IT headaches for businesses were 'everyday hassles with IT' (37 per cent) and 'security concerns' (32 per cent) In a recent survey of SMEs for Connect, the two most important benefits of outsourcing were 'guaranteed response times' and 'allowing in-house IT staff to concentrate on more strategic issues'