If you’re pro-environment, you need to show your love for Mother Nature by cutting out harmful chemicals and plastic from your life.
To ensure green living, you need to focus on recycling, reusing, and reducing waste. It’s easy to talk about conserving the environment by engaging in sustainable cleaning practices, but it’s a challenging task to consciously try to recycle and cut-down your carbon footprint.
Let’s take a look at some easy and practical ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle, starting from home.
Reduce Your Waste
The best way to start reducing waste is to stay away from packaged food, carton eggs, and plastic grocery bags.
Use cotton bags and wicker baskets to store your purchases and politely ask the cashier to not put your products in a plastic store bag.
For more authentic and organic food consumption, visit your local farmer’s market and buy lentils, rice, spices, and meat in bulk.
Instead of purchasing individually packed soaps and detergents, buy economy packs of washing liquids, bars, and powders.
Invest in high-quality durable clothes that will last longer than cheaper alternatives that have to be replaced every few months.
Reuse Bags, Containers, and Other Items
Reusing items and repurposing them helps to conserve the environment. You can engage in this green practice by reusing the plastics bags that accumulate after a shopping trip.
Use them to store old clothes or line trashcans with plastic bags. Bring your own reusable mugs to the office and ask the barista to fill your go-to insulated coffee mug instead of purchasing it in a Styrofoam or plastic cup.
Repurpose paint cans and aluminum foil containers to grow plants and flowers. Cut the lid and add soil, seeds, and water and line them in your backyard or hang them on the front porch wall.
Use old cotton t-shirts as dirty rags to wipe down counters and dust the furniture. Instead of throwing bags full of old clothes, bed sheets into the bin, donate them to charities, women’s and children’s shelters.
Recycle Your Rubbish
Separate your rubbish into piles of plastic, metal, glass, and paper and call a recycling truck to pick up the trash.
Designate separate boxes for each item and teach your kids to throw their empty juice boxes and plastic food wrapping in the color-coded and labeled containers.
Whether its newspapers, magazines, old school notebooks, envelopes, aerosol cans, or spray bottles, try recycling household items as much as you can.
Use Green Seal Certified Cleaning Products for House Cleaning
Conventional cleaning products available in the market use ammonia acids and harsh chemical bleach which are harmful to your health and the environment.
Clean your house using organic, green products that are biodegradable and don’t harm the environment.
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