Going Green at home
Every month we discard bottles and glass jars enough to fill a scraper sky. In a year's time, a typical family consumes 182 gallons of soda, 29 gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk and 26 liters of bottled water
Most of these containers are discarded. the result is devastating for our world. In fact, our recycling rate is only 28%, although about 80% of what we throw away is recyclable. The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt bulb for four hours. It also causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw materials.
You can make a positive difference! Recycling is easy to integrate into your home as a practice of daily life. Here's how:
Check with your local government about the recycling options in your area. The main elements of recycled include aluminum, plastic bottles, newspaper, corrugated cardboard, steel cans, glass containers, magazines, mixed paper, and computers.
- Make your visible recycling area in your home and make recycling a family affair.
- Back clean plastic grocery bags at your local supermarket for recycling.
- properly recycle your e-waste, such as televisions and cell phones and other hazardous materials. electronic retailers can accept items for recycling free of charge. To locate the hazardous waste sites near you, go to www.earth911.org.
- Consider selling the donated items such as furniture and clothing to a local charity.
Replace incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs that use 66% less energy and last up to 10 times longer.
are you ready to go green? Make some small changes to give great results and save money.
- Replace incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent lamps (compact fluorescent bulbs) that use 66% less energy and last up to 10 times longer.
- Switch to Energy Star appliances, which are 10% to 50% more efficient than their conventional counterparts. Visit www.energystar.gov for more information.
- Reducing the amount of mail you receive. It takes 68 million trees per year to produce catalogs and charitable calls we receive each year. Almost half of this mail is thrown open.
- Buy at your local farmer's market products to minimize miles from the farm to the table and thus reduce pollution. For a list of farmers markets to visit www.localharvest.org.
- Dust off the slow cooker. Slow cooking uses a lot less energy than simmering on the stove.
- Wash your clothes in cold water. About 0% of the energy used by a washing machine is spent heating the water to the load. detergents in cold water are effective.
- Learn how to compost. garden waste and food waste accounts for 20% to 30% of waste. You can turn your organic waste into useful mulch for your garden.
- Become a smart consumer. As you go to green food, personal products and household cleaners, learn to read the labels. Advertisers are a variety of claims, "natural" to "free." You can check the ingredients of a particular product to www.eco-labels.org.
- Bring your backpack, reusable bag, travel mug or cup. Plastic bags take hundreds of years to decompose, and a significant amount eventually suffocate ocean life. Some retailers will give you a discount on your latte or tea to use a reusable mug
Living a greener life need not be complicated. "Simple" is a good rule. Your personal efforts to reduce, reuse, recycle and now will have a significant impact on our future
Sources :. National Recycling Coalition, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington and Earth911 and Shady Grove Adventist hospitals. For more information, consult your doctor.
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