Lowering your family’s carbon footprint is simpler than most would expect! As you’re planning your Earth Day activities, be sure to consider these tips from PUR which prove that you can be a little more earth friendly by only making minor changes to your everyday life.
- Swap Household Cleaners: Switching to plant based products reduces air pollution both indoors and out, minimizing exposure to both asthma and allergy triggers as well as chemicals that can be harmful to your health.
- Shoes Off: By removing your shoes when you enter a home you prevent outside toxins like car exhaust, chemicals, and pesticides from being tracked all over your home.
- Ditch Bottled Water: Americans spend over $15 billion each year on bottled water and all of those bottles produce up to 1.5 million tons of plastic waste per year. By switching from bottled water to PUR faucet filtered water, you’ll get 400 gallons of clean filtered water a year—which is like making thousands of plastic water bottles disappear.
- Unplug, Don’t Just Turn Off: Unplug your TV, stereo, computer, microwave and other electronics because all electronic equipment and appliances still use energy even when they’re turned off. Try a power strip that you can keep turned off when you’re not using one of these items.
- Cold Water Wash: Ninety percent of the energy used in clothes washing goes to heat the water. Therefore, cold water washes is a simple way to cut energy use drastically. Also, make sure you’re doing a full load. You can even take efficiency a step further and air dry items instead of using the dryer.
All of these little changes can really add up to make a difference!
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I use my own shopping totes.
Your convincing and informative blog post has made me decide to take the plunge and ditch my bottled water to filtered tap
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I have changed all the light bulbs. Now I have put all the tv’s and computers on strips and turn them off when we leave or if we won’t be using them for a while.
I save rain water to watery garden.
I’ve already switched to using only cold water for the laundry. I wash & re-use those plastic water bottles & just fill them up again from the tap, but eventually I have to buy new ones… so I’m working on getting a bunch of aluminum-type bottles for the family. =)
I wash clothes with cold water.
we use reusable shopping bags, bring our own cups for coffee and tea, we use real plates, no paper. we recycle magazines, dont subscribe to the paper, and use cloth towels instead of paper towels. right now we buy water in jugs and use our own cups instead of bottled water. this would make filling those cups much easier! we do have aluminum bottles, but we both like straws, so we use the cups.
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use my own shopping bags, turn off water while brushing teeth
Started using reusuable water bottles, my own shopping bags and recycle everything I possibly can.
reusable shopping bags, recycle & reuse whatever we can, cold water wash for laundry
Conserve water by installed low flow shower heads, do laundry in cold water and use LED light bulbs to conserve electricity
I recycle as many things as the recycling company in our area allows, and we wash and reuse plastic freezer storage bags.
I use my own shopping totes
i try to drive less
I plan on planting a garden so I don’t have to go to the store and rely on transported veggies to feed my family
We use reuseable grocery bags whenever we can
As a family we have made lots! Shorter showers, shut off water while brushing, recycling, reusables etc.
I use tote bags, recycle and use cold water for washing and during summer months hang laundry outside to dry
I recycle and repurpose and donate as much as possible
One thing I do is eat local so that the food in my meals don’t have to travel far thus cutting down on everyone’s carbon footprint.
Use reusable tote bags and recycle whenever possible
I have switched to organic and natural cleaners. We try to use as little water as possible and we recycle.
We try to recycle as much as possible.
I have tried to switch to mostly organic foods.
I love my nightly emails
I recycle plastic bags, plastic bottles, paper, and metal. I even do it when on vacation
We use reusable shopping bags, use cold water in our washing machine, and do a lot of recycling.