The Little Things You Can Do!

In today's post, I'm talking about some little things you can do to have a green life.  You may have read a few of these in other posts, but it's always good to have a reminder! 😀 

To reduce food waste: 

• Eat your leftovers for lunch. Yesterday, I went to a football match with friends and afterwards we went to a chip shop to get chips, and the portion sizes were huge! I could hardly eat half of it - so I saved it for my family the next day and for lunch the three of us split it and each had a substantial amount.

To reduce clutter: 

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  Borrowing and gifting old things. I've been having a huge clear out the past week and and I've got heaps of things I don't want anymore. My mum put them in the local online swap-shop and they were all gone in a few hours!
• Think before you buy.  There's a hierarchy (or a buyerarchy) of what you should do before buying something.  In order of least to most of what you should do it is: buy, make, thrift, swap, borrow, use what you have. 
  

To change habits:

• Swapping from non-eco-friendly to green things. It's easy to make small changes, like plastic bottles to bars of soap, making sure things are cruelty free, even non-eco-friendly to recycled toilet paper.  For example, we use Serious Tissues. 
• Buy fewer books, go to the library; unplug anything you don't use often; use a watering can instead of a hose; have a shower instead of a bath.

Thank you for reading, and I hope you did something for Earth Day last Friday - and commemorated the life of Stephen Lawrence too. 

Thank you for reading!

Violet

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