Here are my 20 easy eco-friendly lifestyle hacks for reducing waste in your home. These green tips and tricks will help you live a more green and minimalist lifestyle. A lot of people think that making eco-friendly life changes are expensive and require specialty products. The truth is there are easy and affordable swaps you can make. It is NOT difficult or expensive to be eco friendly.
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What we throw out goes back into our food supply. Everything runs in a cycle and mindless consumption is corrupting that cycle. This is not just an environmental issue, it’s a YOU issue. The average American is expected to throw away 90,000 pounds of trash in their lifetime.
Cutting down on plastic is imperative to insuring our wildlife and food supply does not become completely wiped out for future generations. The ocean is a big concern for me with our coral dying all over the planet as plastic whirlpools the size of continent are forming, extinguishing entire species and killing countless marine wildlife. If a washed up whale stomaching 64 pounds of plastic they had digested doesn’t make you sick, I really don’t know what else to say. Hopefully those are enough reasons for you to care, now let’s get into the swaps.
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1. WRAPPAS Reusable food wraps:
2. Reusable Swell Water Bottle:
3. KEEPCUP Coffee Cup:
-8oz plastic:
-16oz plastic:
-8oz glass:
-16oz glass:
4. Reusable Glass Straws:
5. Home Cutlery vs Plastic Cutlery:
– Stainless Steel Chopsticks:
– Utility Professional Cutlery 4 Piece Set:
6. Reusable Shopping Bags:
7. Tea Strainer:
8. Bare Bar Soap:
9. Cloth vs paper products:
-Napkins:
-Handkerchiefs:
-Microfiber cloths:
10. Silicone Baking Mats:
11. Make your own Cleaning products:
-Cinnamon Essential Oil:
-Tea Tree Essential Oil:
– Lavender Essential Oil:
-Spray bottle:
RECIPES:
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12. Dryer Balls:
13. Clean Period:
-Diva Cup:
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14. Compost Kitchen Catcher:
15. Reusable tupperware:
-Mason Jars:
-Glass Tupperware:
-Lunch boxes:
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How do you clean the re-usable cling wraps? Just warm water and soap to wipe off with a rag?
I will compost so much more now 🙂 If anyone watching has kids, cloth nappies/diapers are very easy to use these days and so much cheaper. i bought a mixture of new and second hand and used them on all my kids. Saved money and a lot lot lot of waste
Awesome tips! The only ones I’m not yet able to partake in are giving up paper towels and composting, and that’s mostly thanks to the stupid, stuck-up Texan suburb I’m currently trapped in whilst I’m home with family for the summer. :/ It’s a daily struggle, but I gain a little more hope with every little change I’m able to get them to make. Can’t wait to get back to my tree-hugging life in Vancouver, though!
Anyway, I’m continually shocked at how quickly this low-waste movement has grown in size since the beginning of the year. Let’s make 2018 the year the world finally took charge of its waste. 🙂
my city turns our compost into bio-fuel which powers the garbage trucks
To add to this. Switch to a bamboo toothbrush and make your own toothpaste. Get a stainless steel reusable razor so your not using those crappy disposable ones. If you have young children use cloth diapers and cloth wipes and training pants.
I am going to a workshop next week to make my own sunscreen, also I have my self made deodorant and I wash my hair with rye flour 😀 saving plastic packaging and not putting suspicious products on my skin and hair. also I found a place to buy toilet paper wrapped in paper in stead of plastic!
I am annoyed with the recycling stuff because literally no one has ever taught me or in school that you have to rinse stuff out and even remove labels. TBH I don’t think families will do it but municipalities absolutely should invest in people cleaning the recycling goods out because for sure not everyone knows about cleaning and removing labels.