Live A Little Greener...
1. Turn off your car engine if you're waiting for more than 30
seconds. An idling vehicle consumes more fuel than just
restarting the engine.
2. Decorate your home with light colours, this will reflect light
rather than absorb it.
3. Donate used items rather than throwing them away. This
will reduce the amount of garbage in landfills.
4. Instead of taking old electronics, appliances and equipment
to the dump, try and find a shop that recycles them--often the
supplier is the best place to start.
5. Replace dated appliances and leaky faucets.
6. You can recycle aluminum foil and pie pans with your cans.
7. Buy a durable water bottle and reuse it.
8. Use compact fluorescent light bulbs. They are 75% more
efficient and use very little heat. They also sell mini-fluorescent
bulbs for night lights.
9. When doing your laundry use the appropriate settings and
biodegradable, cold-water laundry detergent.
10. Use water-based paints. There is a new line of paint that
looks like oil, but is water soluble.
11. Buy cleaning and hygienic products from eco-friendly
stores that enforce reusable containers. In Victoria
The Soap Exchange offers everything from face wash to
floor polish. When you purchase a product you can bring
in your own bottle or pay between $1-3 for the packaging.
12. Buy organic and local foods. Avoiding pesticides is just
healthy!
13. Place you home electronics on a surge protector. It makes
it easier to turn off when not in use to prevent phantom
energy loss.
14. Use replaceable razor blades instead of disposable.
15. Always turn off outdoor lights during the day.
16. Air dry your dishes. It can save up to 10% of the cost
of operating a dishwasher by using less energy.
17. Make sure your car tires are adequately inflated to
reduce gas consumption.
18. Carpool!
19. Install low-flow bathroom appliances.
20. When purchasing home appliances check for the
ENERGY STAR label, by doing this you can reduce
your energy consumption up to 30%.
21. It takes 400+ years for plastics to decompose. Follow
the three R's: recycle, reduce and reuse.
More helpful tips coming soon...
We'd like to acknowledge that the information above came from Brownline, EcoLogix, 2008, and thank them for their wealth of knowledge on this subject.
Children under 6 years old accounted for over 50% of all poisoning cases in 2005. More than 121,000 of those cases involved household cleaning substances."
- American Association of Poison Control Centers
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