Water:
- Get low-flow shower heads and faucets.
- Turn off the tap while you brush your teeth.
- Fix those leaks!
Electricity:
- Turn off the lights in any room if your leaving for more than 15 minutes
- Unplugg TVs, Toasters, computers, and basically any electrical appliance. If the red standby light is on, it's using electricity even if it's off. This wastes 40% of your electricity, and costs more than $3 Billion annually.
- Change your lightbulbs to florescent lightbulbs. If everyone did, we'd cut our electricity use for lighting in half!
Your trash:
- REfill your water bottle. Americans go through a whopping 2.5 million water bottles per hour, and most are not recycled. Also, plastic is harmfu for the water as it has bad chemicals in it.
- Bring your own mug to work! 2.5 million styrofoam cups are thrown out annually. The US makes almost 3 million tons of it, and most of it ends up in landfills.
- Bring your own reusable bag while shopping! the US throws away about 100 Billion plastic bags per year! Yikes!
-Wash clothes in warm or cold water, then hang them on a line. Save up for bigger loads of laundry, and by finding the most efficent model you can lay your eyes on, you can conserve 90% of the C02 created by your laundry! Wow!
-Don't paper waste! over 1/3 of waste is paper.
I hope these tips helped you be green!
