10 Tips To Take Care Of The Environment In Your Home
Caring for the environment from home is not an impossible mission! We just have to adapt our habits to reuse, recycle and protect what our planet offers us.
In recent years, the “green move” has become a trend and more and more people are concerned about the environment. And is not for less! If we take care of our world, who will?
Here we share with you some easy tips to take care of the environment in your home. You will see that they are all very simple actions, you just need to become aware of it.
How to take care of the environment in your home
1. Don’t waste water
Water is a scarce commodity and as such, we must take care of it! The best way to do this is by reducing your waste. To do this, you can carry out small actions such as:
- Shower in less than 10 minutes, instead of taking a bath.
- Recycle rainwater: you can collect water in buckets and then water your garden with it, for example.
- Turn off the tap while brushing your teeth and doing the dishes.
- Better yet, remove the remains of the dishes, clean them with the damp scouring pad and a drop of detergent and place them in the sink. Then, you only have to rinse them. This way you will use less water. Another option is to fill the basin with water and wash them directly in there. Either way, you will use less water than with the tap running.
- Fix leaks in toilet taps and cisterns.
- Buy class A or A + dishwashers.
2. Turn off the lights you don’t use
We must be aware of the cost of energy and we are not referring only to its monetary cost, but to the pollution that its generation produces. Therefore, we advise you to turn off the lights when you leave a room.
Another option, which is becoming increasingly popular, is to replace all the light bulbs in your house with energy saving light bulbs. You will save money and help take care of the environment, all together!
3. Choose regional and seasonal foods
Buying food harvested in your region allows you to take care of the environment. How? It is very simple. If you buy food from the area, it should not travel large areas in trucks that pollute the planet.
In addition, by choosing fruits and vegetables of the season and the region, you will eat healthier and cheaper, while generating a positive impact to maintain local businesses in your area.
4. Separate the waste
Recycling is one of the best ways to take care of the environment and, let’s face it, it doesn’t take too long or too much work. The best thing is to recycle as a family to teach children to do it and that they can help us.
You can buy special garbage cans or make the separation into bags or boxes. The important thing is that you classify your garbage so that recyclable waste has a second life!
5. Create your own compost
Do you have plants in your house or on the balcony? How about making your own compost to fertilize them? Making compost is not complicated, you just need patience and a space dedicated to this purpose.
Here we briefly explain how to prepare compost in a confined space:
You need:
- 1 large pot with half soil
- land
- 1 carton the size of the pot’s mouth
- food scraps
How to compost?
- Place the pot on the balcony.
- Add food scraps (vegetable and fruit peels, salad scraps, apple cores … Avoid adding meat and dairy) to the pot.
- Cover the remains with a little soil and the pot with the cardboard.
- Stir every 3 to 4 days with a garden shovel.
- Add water a couple of times a week without soaking the mixture.
- Wait and see how your remains are transformed into a quality compost that you can use to create an urban garden or fertilize your plants.
6. Prepare your urban garden
Self-reliance is good for the planet. Have you ever thought what it would be like to grow your own vegetables at home? Not only would you save money but you would also avoid buying food that has been trucked from the other side of the country (or even by plane from another continent).
The effort may seem useless, but if we all had an urban garden, we would surely have an impact on caring for the environment. In addition, vegetables and fruits are much richer fresh from the plant!
7. Regulate the home temperature
Avoid setting the heat to very high in winter and the air conditioning to very low temperatures in summer. The use of energy must be rational, as we have already mentioned. The planet and your pocketbook will thank you!
8. Choose reusable products
Avoid buying single-use items. Why use paper napkins if there are cloth napkins that you can wash and reuse? Be aware that every paper napkin you use has been produced from a tree that has been cut down.
The same happens with plastic plates and cups and all the disposable objects that we usually buy, for example, to celebrate children’s birthdays. The indiscriminate use of plastics is highly damaging to the environment.
9. Reuse and recycle
Do you have jars at home and don’t know what to do with them? You can create lamps with a jar. Have you collected many cans? Well, prepare a craft with the children and use the cans as pens, for example. There are endless options to reuse and give new life to the most varied materials. Do some research!
10. Be a conscientious shopper
Choose organic products that do not harm the environment. Did you know that there are cleaning products that are friendly to the planet? Instead of using toxic chemicals, choose cleaning vinegars and other biodegradable items. Or even make your cleaning products at home with natural ingredients!
Caring for the environment is everyone’s job. There are no excuses to evade our responsibility. Change your habits, pay attention to what you do every day and join the green movement!
