With spring cleaning in full swing, it’s the perfect time to get to accept small changes in your house, your impact on the environment. Here are the Top 10 simple ways to make your home environmentally friendly.
1. Replace burned out light bulbs with energy-efficient and investing in insulation, especially if you have an older home. This cheap tactic will not only reduce your impact on the environment, but they will also directly reduce your electric bill.
2. Not just another device, they get on the net. Even if they separate, they still plugged into an outlet, they still draw energy from the grid. Where possible, remove any equipment in use. In some cases, a socket with a master on / off switch can come in handy.
3. The investment in a solar charger for cell phones and other mobile devices.
4. During the summer, consider hanging clothes outside to dry. It is simple, inexpensive and surprisingly relaxed.
5. Start composting your kitchen waste. A system that is based on fermentation (Bokashi) instead of composting kitchen demolition fast, easy and much less smelly compost based on the home page.
6. Donate your old clothes and household items. Rather than waste will help others.
7. Be smart use of water. Turn the tap while brushing teeth or shaving. Install a low-flow shower head in the shower. (If you tried in the past and the pressure was unsatisfactory, I recommend half try. The technology has come a long way to come.) Scrape food scraps into the garbage or compost bucket before rinsing them. If you do not have a faucet aerator (screen filter), is to install an easy and inexpensive. (These small structures can your water by 50% without affecting the water pressure must be reduced!) If you do not have high-efficiency toilets, consider this affordable alternative rock in a plastic bottle. Simply place a bottle of water filled with pebbles in the tank, and you significantly reduce your water consumption.
8. Use environmentally friendly cleaning products at home. Find biologically driven cleaners such as the use of microbial innoculants breaking unwanted connections, rather than harsh chemicals. This not only reduces chemical runoff into our groundwater, but also protects your family and pets of excessive exposure to toxic chemicals can cause chemical sensitivities and other health problems.
9. When you arrive at the supermarket without your reusable shopping bag (and who does not), simply looking for a secondary use for plastic shopping bags in some other facet of your life. For example, my family used plastic bags to hold the dog on the walks and the elimination of our cats’ litter. If you can not find a good secondary use for plastic bags, many supermarkets container … bring me go shopping next time.
10. Commit to using less disposable things in the house. If you use disposable paper towels, cups, cutlery and razors, to think. Similarly, filters and bottling their own water so saves a lot of waste.