SELF-AUDIT YOUR OFFICE
Mission City Chakra Positive Action Score
Know where you are today.
Before setting targets or choosing solutions, understand what your office is already doing.
You may be surprised.
You may already have eliminated several unnecessary materials, introduced reusable systems, or created good waste-management practices.
The MCC Self-Audit helps you:
Identify what you already do → recognise what is missing → create your baseline → decide what to do next.
This is not an audit by Mission City Chakra (MCC). It is your organisation’s own starting-point assessment.
WHY START WITH A SELF-AUDIT?
A zero-waste journey does not begin with:
“What are we doing wrong?”
It begins with:
“What are we already doing?”
Your organisation may already have:
- eliminated some single-use products
- introduced reusable alternatives
- reduced packaging
- changed procurement practices
- implemented waste segregation
- created recycling systems
- started composting
- established e-waste collection
- adopted sustainable event practices
Count those achievements first.
Then identify the opportunities that remain.
HOW THE MCC SELF-AUDIT WORKS
Step 1 — Know where you are today
A Zero-Waste Office does not have to be created all at once.
Start with one area.
Look → Record → Recognise → Decide
Choose the area you want to assess:
🟢 PANTRY
What comes in? What is used? What becomes waste?
🔵 MEETING ROOMS
What do we provide for meetings?
🟠 EVENTS
What materials do our events consume and discard?
🟣 RESTROOMS
What consumables and systems are used?
🟤 PREMISES
What happens across cleaning, gardening, stationery, etc.?
⚙️ PROCUREMENT
What decisions determine what enters the office?
2. EACH AREA GETS ITS OWN MINI-AUDIT
ZERO-WASTE PANTRY SELF-AUDIT
Start here if you want to make your pantry your first Zero-Waste Zone.
First, simply understand:
What is happening in our pantry today?
A. BEVERAGES
Drinking water
How is drinking water provided?
☐ Packaged water bottles
☐ Water dispenser + disposable cups
☐ Water dispenser + reusable cups
☐ Refill station + reusable bottles/cups
☐ Combination of above
☐ Don’t know
How drinking water is served?
☐ Paper cups
☐ Single-use Plastic glasses
☐ Reusable Plastic glasses
☐ Glasses
☐ Steel Glasses
☐ Don’t know
Tea/coffee
How are beverages served?
☐ Paper cups
☐ Plastic cups
☐ Ceramic cups
☐ Glass cups
☐ Steel cups
☐ Combination
☐ Don’t know
Straws
☐ Plastic Straws
☐ Paper Straws
☐ Steel Straws
☐ Not provided
☐ Don’t know
Stirrers
☐ Disposable plastic stirrers
☐ Disposable wooden stirrers
☐ Plastic spoons
☐ Steel spoons
☐ Not provided
☐ Don’t know
B. FOOD SERVICE
Cutlery
(spoons, forks, knives)
☐ Disposable plastic
☐ Disposable wooden
☐ Reusable plastic
☐ Melamine
☐ Steel
☐ Don’t know
Crockery
(plates, bowls)
☐ Disposable plastic
☐ Disposable biodegradable
☐ Reusable plastic
☐ Melamine
☐ Steel
☐ Ceramic
☐ Glass
☐ Don’t know
Napkins
☐ Paper Napkins
☐ Bamboo Napkins
☐ Recycled paper Napkins
☐ Cloth Napkins
☐ Available on request
☐ Not provided
Food packaging
Covering
☐ Cling wrap
☐ Aluminium foil
☐ Single-use Plastic lid
☐ Reusable plastic lid
☐ Ceramic lid
☐ Steel lid
☐ Melamine lid
☐ Not Applicable
☐ Don’t know
C. FOOD WASTE
What happens to food waste?
☐ Mixed with general waste and sent out
☐ Segregated and sent out
☐ Collected separately and composted somewhere
☐ Composted at premises
☐ Other
☐ Don’t know
Do you know what happens to the dry waste?
☐ Recyclables are segregated and sent
☐ Sent in mixed waste
☐ Other
☐ Don’t know
E. YOUR PANTRY BASELINE
YOUR PANTRY IS READY FOR THE NEXT STEP
[ Celebrate your baseline → ]
or
[ See what you could change → ]