We’ve grown up learning and understanding the importance of recycling and preserving. Our lifestyles have made it a lot easier to reuse and recycle by giving us designated bins and procedures to follow. Blue bins are always for recycling—this has been drilled into our heads since we were children.
But do you notice that sometimes you have to make an active effort to ensure that you’re actually reducing waste and making the most use of valuable resources? Recycling and reusing can sometimes be tough to do, given the environment, but perhaps the video below can help give us a little bit of a hand, especially in the kitchen.
The kitchen is one of the easiest places in the home to reuse and preserve important items, and you’ll be surprised how far this can really go. Here are some of the things you can do differently in order to ensure that you’re always making the best use of what’s in the kitchen:
• Try to marinate food in glass bowls and containers, instead of plastic.
• Grow a set of your own herbs and snip them whenever you need.
• Switch up those chemical cleaners for a soap-and-water solution. Chemicals aren’t any more effective than hot soapy water!
• Start a compost.
• Ditch the larger appliances for something more energy-efficient. How about a microwave over to bake those fries instead of the bigger one?
The tips above aren’t the only ones though!
Click on the video below and see what else you can do to help save the environment using homemade cleaners that aren’t as harsh but work just as well. And if you found these tips at all useful, don’t forget to like and share this post with family and friends!
