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Make a Kitchen Dish Cloth: approximately 380 billion plastic bags a year would be eliminated if everyone uses a cloth bag instead of in the country. Many grocery stores sell reusable cloth bags or canvas. Stash one in the car for racing. Market and other local sponsors strakhovye Eat Local Milwaukee Challenge Kitchen Towel in September.
Take your green, green
Take the wheel: Hold £ 2.5 million plastic in landfills.
Donate Your Gadgets: Recycle your old computers, mobile phones, televisions and other technologies.
Save the trees: Each year, 100 million trees are destroyed to produce 400 million tons of junk mail.
Become a "Locavore," Stick with food, drinks and locally produced ingredients. Eat Local Milwaukee has many great menus, recipes and resources for healthy diets and responsible. The partnership with the Urban Ecology Center, Outpost Natural Foods, the Farmers
Recycle your hangers: Finding new ways to use 200 million tons of steel. More than 3.5 billion hangers end up in landfills each year around metal hanger for cleaning.
Power: "ghost" energy is by some devices, while they remain connected, but can be used. The appliances, lighting and electronics to put six points separate electricity consumed 87 percent more than if the devices within a six-band output, which are associated turn-off.Try low-flow: Install water saving devices
Compost: Yard waste and food leftovers can be stored in a container and turned into nutrients for your garden, buy reducing the need for commercial fertilizer and waste disposal. Environmental Protection Agency has been instructed on how to make your own compost.
against the heat: It is not necessary to preheat when cooking or grilling a court that is in the oven at least an hour. If you make cakes and bread, heat for 10 minutes. For cooking and frying others, food continues to cook without additional energy when the oven 10 Turn to 15 minutes earlier.
Clean to see: Once or twice a year to clean the refrigerator and freezer to function more effectively. Then pull the dust and vacuum the coils, pans and other components.
Join the Freecycle Network, more than seven million people worldwide are members of this basic work, the non-profit organization, sharing and reuse what they have with the other members of their community.
hours of power: Run your dishwasher, do laundry during off peak hours. Electricity tariffs are generally lower than 23.00 07.00 clock weekend also are cheaper. In summer, the warmth of home devices to compete with air conditioning and the electricity grid. Check with your utility company for the best time to the advantage of low prices.
Try this idea: Replace traditional light bulbs with compact fluorescent lamps. From the bathrooms that are more comfortable living room and kitchen.
Buy a bottle of tea tree oil: Discover the benefits of tea tree oil and detergent. A natural antiseptic, fights, tea tree oil infectious organisms, including fungi, bacteria and viruses.
Recycle paper: Seventeen trees and 7,000 gallons of water are conserved, if a ton of paper produced from recycled pulp. Make it easy for the document by placing a recycling bin right in your home office.
Buy in bulk: A form of packaged products. Transfer what you need in a reusable plastic container.
Power cycle the cold water heating up to 90 percent of the energy used by the team. Manufacturers are now making detergents specifically designed for cold water, but most detergents regular work at any temperature.
Skip Polystyrene: Polystyrene (brand name Styrofoam) is prohibited by a number of recycling centers, since it takes a long time to decompose. Share your favorite restaurants and cons of taking a sheet of aluminum and cardboard recycling or reusable plastic containers used.
Think Small: Using countertop appliances like toasters and microwave oven instead of electric stoves. They use half the electricity and help maintain the freshness of the kitchen.
Use your library card: rent movies and buy books from the library instead.
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