eco tips

[peckman]

thought id start a thread on little tips and tricks to help to do our bit for the environment.

tip 1

we have got rid of all our cleaning products and use diluted white vinegar

tip 2

use left over lemons you use for cooking and rub on stubborn stains (ie the bath). leave for a few minutes and wipe down

as anyone got any other good tips ?

[Jules-and-Boo]

Put a lemon in a bowl of water and microwave for couple mins...cleans microwave and any splashed food wipes off. Really easy

[peckman]

vinegar and lemons are brilliant

[Nigello]

Any crumbs, stale cake, fat from meat can be chopped and fed to the birds. Boil a kettle only with enough water for your needs. Bicarbonate of soda washed down the plughole with lemon juice then boiling water will clean your pipes. Lemon juice is good as a dishwasher rinse. Turn down your heating. Freeze leftovers.

All are worthy of doing (and I do do them) and there lots more but to have a real impact, stop having more than one child, eat and consume less and drive less. It?s simple but not easy and most folk will prefer to ignore the difficult stuff.

[KidKruger]

-shower weekly

-wash in the morning from max 2pints of water (then slowly progress down to 1/2 pint)

-brush teeth from a small cup of water, not a running tap

-don't wash-up dishes under a running tap

-only use tap to use the water from it, not pour water pointlessly down the drain while you scrub something or wander off

-eat veg

-only flush the brown not the yellow

-catch rain in big tubs ad save washing-up water and water used to wash rice/lentils/pasta, it can all be used on the garden instead of fresh water

-don't waste food

these all play a part in reducing your environmental footprint.

[peckman]

turn your hot water down . most people have the hot water too hot and have to run the cold water tap on to cool it down !

[KidKruger]

Showering.

-turn shower on and get in

-wet yourself

-turn shower off

-soap / shampoo yourself up

-turn shower on

-rinse off

Most time in a shower is wasting water. Gallons of entitlement.

If people had to carry water they'd inspect their consumption.

[malumbu]

Avoid conspicuous consumption, use things till they fall apart, don't fill the streets with Amazon deliveries, half to be returned. Interesting dynamic as government and business want us to buy things, which is at odds with environmental issues. Men in particular, wee in your compost heap.

[sjsl]

Good tips here... turn your heating down as well as the hot water, stop buying new stuff, especially clothes. Top tip from Malumbu re compost heap, wish it was easier for us women, don't want to frighten the neighbours though.

[Nigello]

All useful and good for the halo but not likely to stop climate change, even if made compulsory and everyone were compliant. Let?s not forget that as we (rightly) reuse our teabags and switch off the lights.

[malumbu]

Not sure why reducing consumption is not good for the environment. I know there are arguments that consumption is good for business, innovation and the like. But war is good for driving forward innovation and reducing costs of production, but I wouldn't recommend that. As for weeing on your compost, wont a she-wee work? OMG there is a demonstration on Amazon, wont post the link. Sorry for being puerile.

[Spartacus]

I also guess

Don't eat yellow snow near a compost heap is very much at the forefront of my mind 😱

[Sue]

sjsl Wrote:

Top tip from Malumbu re

> compost heap, wish it was easier for us women,

> don't want to frighten the neighbours though.

As I understand it, it's not so much because it's easier for men to pee onto the heap, it's because there is something in men's pee which helps to activate the processes in the compost heap, which women's pee doesn't contain.

[malumbu]

Its nitrogen, like in fertiliser. Too much wee and you get overpowered by the smell of ammonia and similar compounds, the bus shelters smelled of that when I was a kid. Also good for jellyfish stings in that it neutralises the acid.

[siousxiesue]

Don't replace your phone every five minutes. Goes for most gadgets that are replaced for fashion and not need.

[Seabag]

Shower or bath once a week (whether you need it or not)and peel your vegetables while you?re at it.

[legalalien]

YY to turning heating down and also if you have central heating don?t turn it all at all until you really need it. Turn lights, screens, anything else off in rooms that you aren?t in.

Not really an eco tip but if you put vinegar in a plastic bag, put it over your shower head, secure with a rubber band and leave it for a bit, it gets all the lime scale off.

Avoid beauty products, stay away from synthetic fabrics.

[Seabag]

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