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Do you want to ramp up your efforts to live an eco friendly lifestyle? We have a few tips that you can follow on how to live eco friendly in 2022.
Turn your household eco friendly by investing in a renewable energy source to power your home. Many households are on the grid, meaning they get their electricity from a non-renewable source. Solar energy is a popular choice for renewable sources, where the sun is used as an energy source. This is possible thanks to the photovoltaic system. It utilizes the sun’s energy into electricity, making it much cleaner than fossil fuels.
You can also opt for a renewable method for your home’s heating. One of the easiest and most cost-efficient ways to save energy is by installing solar thermal heating via solar panels. If you have a boiler, you can switch to powering it with biomass, which is fuel derived from plant materials. It’s cheaper and more eco-friendly than gas boilers. Another option is to use a heat pump that consumes less energy and eliminates the need for gas pipes and oil tanks.
Many of the mainstream brands of cleaning products have ingredients that harm the environment. These chemicals, such as detergents, preservatives, and foaming against, are in our products to clean our clothes, dishes, and house. You can replace these with products that contain sustainable and organic ingredients. These products do not deplete the ecosystem, nor do they bring harm when disposed. They are also better for you and your family because they do not contain harsh and dangerous chemicals!
Did you know that it requires at least 17 trees and more than 90,000 liters of water to make a ton of toilet paper rolls? And the average person uses 100 rolls in a year. So using toilet paper is not at all a sustainable habit. What you can do instead is to use eco friendly toilet paper made of bamboo. Bamboo is fast-growing, as it grows 39 inches within 24 hours, thus making it a more sustainable source for toilet paper.
We all need water to survive, and bottled water is a convenient product for all of us. However, millions of water bottles only end up in our oceans because many people don’t recycle them properly. This only results in a high rate of pollution since one plastic bottle will break down into 10,000 microplastics, which is harder to clean up. Even if you recycle all of your plastic bottles, it still takes a lot of energy and resources to create these bottles and turn them into new products. A simple solution? Invest in a reusable water bottle and you'll save money and help the planet!
A big impact you can make is by ditching the diesel and petrol cars and buy an electric or hybrid vehicle. The amount of pollution that vehicles emit makes them one of the major causes of global warming. As such, car manufacturers invented hybrids and electric cars to help combat these problems. These types of vehicles run on batteries rather than a combusting fuel source.
Angela Domingo
August 19, 2022
Aloha! Since solar thermal systems are the most efficient (and probably the cheapest) at this point in time. I would suggest that more emphasis would be placed on that investment instead of just this sentence “ Or you can also consider solar thermal heating via solar panels installed on your home. ”