It is unquestionably an alarming situation to stop and start reflecting back to our habits and behaviors, the way we are exhausting resources, exploiting nature. Our waste culture and convenient living will only lead to the absolute falling of the planet earth. One single use of plastic emits enormous harmful gasses like CO2, they tend to play the major role in pollution in the air.
Of course, not everyone belongs to the rich class to afford solar panels and lights but all of us together irrespective of what financial segment we belong, we can still bring smaller changes in the environment just by eradicating few of our daily hazardous habits and start opting something that is friendlier as concerned to the environment. Along with this, looking for how to find lower energy rates options is also a brilliant way to make your space eco-friendly. These small changes can be very budget-friendly or even they might cost you feel at times.
Let’s get started to 10 small tips that might help you in making the greater change to the environment:
- Act Green
We have heard enough of the “Go Green” slogans but it didn’t really have enough impact on people to actually go green. Now is the time to act green where you can do lots of small things at the comfort of your home viz. Planting seeds of fruits or vegetables in your pots, grow herbs and maintain a kitchen garden, decorate your terrace and balconies with beautiful plants and provide proper care to them.
- Better Appliances Choices
Make sure when you are buying lights for your house whether it’s white or warm, always choose LED lights instead of regular lights as they are energy efficient. Avoid the usage of washing machines for fewer clothes or the usage of electronics unnecessarily for example keeping TV and ACs switched on for a long time. Driving a four wheeler only when there are four people. Check out Ecoy Australia for terrific home decor ideas.
There are endless ways to stop exhausting electronic resources, even the lesser use of something as insignificant as a dryer or an iron, can reflect a change in the environment.
- Use Recycled Products
There are n numbers of substitutes available of plastics that are very economical and have better usage. Switch to bioplastic bags and paper straws, eat food in stainless steel, glass or ceramic utensils, drink in glass or brass water bottles. A ‘seaweed plastic’ has been introduced in the market which is very eco-friendly.
- Systematic Waste Disposal
As it is mentioned above, when you will use less plastics half of the waste automatically gets reduced then. Try to use things with minimal packaging as these days all the online shopping bags are smothered with too much plastics. It is advisable to collect everything in the bin of your home before you discard it.
Put disposals and dustbins in most of your rooms to avoid getting it dirty. This also helps in maintaining the hygiene of your home.
- Reduce Usage of Heat
Beware of the heat! Not only your electricity bill gets affected by extra usage of heating appliances but also it takes away too much from the environment. So, an alternative that looks after both the consequences can be taken into consideration. Avoid too much use of dryer, iron, or heater in your home unless it is very necessary. Use cold water to wash your clothes, cold water is ideal to keep your clothes just as new.
- Preserve Water
Adopt a system in your home that has good water perseverance. Install a water filter that can store the water, along with that conserve water in your sink and wash basins. Condemn water wastage by educating your family members and find ideas to conserve it at your convenience.
- Daylight Over Tubelight
Daylight is not just beautiful and cinematic, but also a great source of vitamin D which is very good for your health. You can avoid switching on light and bulbs until it’s afternoon or needed. Right use of curtains and blinds can brighten up your rooms without much use of electricity and it’s a win-win as you will be able to cut down electricity bills.
- More Windows
Good ventilation in the house is very significant as it improves your oxygen and releases carbon dioxide very well. It also keeps your home fresh and odor free. You can have multiple windows in the right direction that creates right ventilation in rooms and maintains temperature. To avoid heat, you can always use blinds and curtains.
- Condemn Food Wastage
Avoid preparing multiple dishes unless needed or take out the leftovers of last night from your fridge and cook something from scratch. Another way to resist food wastage is to preserve sliced vegetables and fruits through ‘Food Huggers’. They come in a set of five silicon wraps that can cover your sliced food that escape it from getting stale. Use reusable pouches and mason jars to store the food in the refrigerator to keep it fresh for a longer period.
- Switch to DIYs
Finally, you are the artist of your own house. You can decorate your house as per your wishes with lovely mattresses and rugs. But if you will choose the ideas from “Do it yourself” and switch to making rugs, lamps, showpieces and candles with waste and reusable products of your house, it will be extremely creative and praiseworthy. Also, of course you are saving the environment by this small creative act.
