Everyone can improve the ecology of the planet, but not everyone can easily get rid of their habits. To protect the environment, you don’t need to make big efforts, you just need to overcome the habits in yourself that harm our native planet and its inhabitants.
From the actions of one person, they say, nothing will change, but if you set a good example and begin to repeat after you, then you will do a good deed!
Build your ideology and you will find support. When a person does something with confidence, understanding, and knows why he is doing it, then followers appear.
10. Reduce electricity consumption
In all rooms, it is advisable to change the bulbs to energy-saving ones - this is the first thing you should do. They shine brighter and work longer than usual. If you are not in the room, turn off the light.
You can save electricity a little by turning off the equipment you use, for example, a computer, from the outlet. If you turn it off, but the cord remains in the power outlet, electrical appliances continue to consume energy.
9. Reduce water and gas consumption
This is easy to do, you just don’t notice how pointlessly spend water. For some, it flows out of the tap without much need - simply because they forgot to turn it off or went away to do some business.
We all use the bath, but some prefer to wash for a long time without the need - if you change your habit of bathing in the shower to wash in the shower, then two things happen at the same time - your time is saved and not so much water is spent.
When it is cold in the apartment in winter, cover the wall space behind the battery with 3 layers of foil. This will reflect the heat in the room and the amount of energy for heating will be reduced.
8. Discard household plastic
Plastic is the same enemy as plastic bags. Plastic affects the environment much worse - the accumulated plastic in the environment negatively affects the wildlife, the habitat of animals, as well as people.
Plastic pollution adversely affects the earth's surface, oceans. Try to refuse plastic as much as possible, use other materials instead.
If you do not have the opportunity to refuse plastic, then choose a container marked (PP) - polypropylene.
7. Move around without cars
Cars filled everything ... and they negatively affect the environment - internal combustion engines burn a huge amount of oil products of varying degrees of purification, it harms the atmosphere.
There are a lot of cars in large cities - the air in them is depleted in oxygen and contaminated with oil combustion products. Polluted air is harmful to human health - from this air harmful products get into the water we drink.
There are places on our planet in which a car is forbidden - Venice, Makino, Vauban, Suede, Monte Isola - lucky residents!
6. Use natural products instead of chemistry
In household chemicals, it’s very easy to replace with natural ones - for example, dishes to a shine can be cleaned with soda or lemon juice, it is not necessary to buy a dishwashing detergent.
There are hundreds of organic recipes on the Internet! And they are all effective. Instead of air freshener, you can use essential oil - a couple of drops will be enough to settle a pleasant smell in the room. Oil can be added to the rag while mopping or wiping the table, cabinets, etc.
5. Do not buy felled trees
Many people are reluctant to refuse to buy live spruce, but pine trees are orderlies in the forest, and produce volatile. These are substances that, when released into the air, kill pathogenic bacteria.
Imagine how many people want to put a spruce in his house, and how many trees are cut down. How much forest is destroyed, and the air becomes impoverished by nutrients.
A selfish desire to show off as an elegant Christmas tree can be dealt with by replacing it with an artificial spruce or with a coniferous branch - people do not understand that they harm not only nature, but also themselves.
4. Discard plastic bags
All of us are familiar with the phrase: “Do you need a bag?” A person who cares about the environment answers: “No, thank you”, adding up the purchases in one package, which he has been walking with for several months or even years.
If you buy a cloth bag, then it will last a long time and there will be no problems with its disposal.
The fact is that polyethylene does not decompose well and when it is sent to a garbage can, it most likely falls into a state landfill, where garbage can lie for years, and no one is in a hurry to get rid of it.
3. Do not throw trash in the street.
A lot of ignorant people live in Russia, and if they throw garbage on the street, this only speaks of their lack of culture and bad manners.
Earth is our home, not only the small apartment in which you live, but the entire planet. In some countries, a large fine is imposed on rubbish thrown out on the street - for example, in Austria, Australia, Ireland, Great Britain.
If you look at the garbage under your feet, this does not mean that somewhere nearby you also need to throw a candy wrapper or a bottle of lemonade - you do not live in a landfill.
Make the world a better and cleaner place for everyone. You need to teach children to throw garbage behind them and not be afraid to make comments to those who litter.
2. Make lists
Why is this needed? Then, that you will not accumulate unnecessary things at home, therefore, there will be nothing to get rid of. Impulsive purchases also damage your wallet. Commercials, discounted prices - for some people they look very seductive ...
However, you need to learn to pacify yourself, you are not so weak that you can not refrain from unnecessary purchases? Write a list before going to the store and do not look at things that you do not need.
1. Dispose of batteries correctly
Refrain from throwing batteries into the general trash. One battery contains mercury, lead, cadmium, manganese and alkali.
They do not carry danger while they are in the working battery, but as soon as it sits down and is sent to the trash, the battery decomposes in the environment, its substances get into the air, water ...
It is better to collect them in a hotel box and take old batteries to the reception point. Such items can be searched on the Internet.