Top 10 eco-friendly tips of the year

Simple but effective recommendations that will be useful in the new year and that everyone


Delete old records from the social claudetite those files to which you have not addressed for many years – it is unlikely that information you'll ever need. It is established that by 2018, the year, 76% of the world traffic will be cloud traffic, and the amount of information in the network will be about 8.6 trillion gigabytes.

Moreover, these servers are often wasting energy wasted, operating in idle mode, that information will users. Meanwhile, "waiting" consumes 80% of electricity. It's time to organize your content in social networks and, for example, to clean Facebook unwanted photos.

 



Choose drinks in aluminium bankofamerica in stores drinks in aluminum cans. This kind of metal has an infinite loop recycling and why it is so popular in the market of recyclable materials and is accepted in most waste collection points. In addition, aluminum cans are easier than glass, are easier to sort and store houses. Due to their soft structure they are easily pressed by hand and take up little space in the container for separate waste collection.

 



Do not leave the charger in place rosetone charger for mobile phone, camera, music player and laptop plugged in when there is no charging of the device. Indeed, in this case up to 95% of the electricity consumed in the blank on useless heating of the charge, which only deteriorates from this. Each time not to bother with unplugging a few plugs, you define for charging devices from a single power strip and turn it off before leaving for work. In addition, it is good from the point of view of fire safety.

 

 



Choose sauces in glass butylacetate if you don't collect the garbage separately, you can experiment with more environmentally friendly packaging. It is not difficult. Just buy the sauce, which is poured into a glass bottle. This material when disposed of in a landfill does not harm the environment. If your favorite sauce is sold in glass, then take in a plastic bottle and bring it for recycling. But definitely forget about the soft packing of ketchup. Even when the desire can not be recycled.

 



Press the little button in public to trilaterate eco-friendly in the most unexpected places. For example, many public restrooms are equipped with toilets with two buttons. Pushing in a little, you twice save water consumption. It is very simple. No restrictions and rejection facilities. A simple conscious choice.

 



Take a shower with your loved closecomponent that taking a shower, you spend 15-20 liters of water per minute. And filling every day a bath, more than 120 liters. Laundry and washing dishes cost another 115 liters, a trip to the toilet is 15 litres. So try to frequently take a shower with your loved one. This will save fresh water and reduce energy costs.

 



Put in the entrance box for makulaturowe in the entrance of his house a box for paper. It is possible to collect brochures, Newspapers, leaflets and other paper spam from their mailboxes. To the box do not dispose of other debris that hang over her informational poster or an ordinary sheet of paper with the words "scrap paper". Thus, their eco-mindedness can manifest not only you but also your neighbors.

 



Use the map "Troika"every day, subway to about 7 million people. Some days the level reaches 9 million passengers. If each of them buys on the card per trip, total for the day formed a huge mountain of garbage, which in any case will go to the dump.

Use a plastic card from "three" instead of single tickets. This will reduce the amount of garbage that is not processed in Russia. On the production of metro cards takes an enormous amount of paper that is produced through deforestation. The tickets have a multi-component composition, which includes not only paper, but plastic with aluminium (magnetic tape). This complicates the process of recycling, therefore cards are not accepted in the recyclable waste collection points.

 



Wash at thirty graduacao wash clothing at 30°C. Modern powders are able to get rid of stains even at this low temperature. At the same time delicate mode allows you to significantly save on electricity: if you wash clothes at 30°With, then spend up to 4 times less electricity than washing at 60°C. in addition, significantly reduces the probability of scale formation and extends the service life of the washing machine.

 



Donate old clothing to the points of reception H&Msdevice old clothes to H&M, where she has special containers with the words "Let the clothes live long". For one set of things here give a 15% discount which you can use when buying a new clothing brand. It extends to one thing from any collection H&M.

The containers are installed in all the stores, except that is located in Surgut. For once you can take no more than two bags of things. Shoes, linen and leather goods will not be accepted. All collected recyclables are sent to the international organization I:CO. Those things that are still wearable, I am in second hand stores. The clothes can not wear it, it goes to processing and creating of new tissues.

Illustration: Anton Mostovoy

Source: recyclemag.ru/article/10-lychshih-ekologichnyh-sovetov-goda

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