Eco Tips

Check out these 10 eco-tips to be more ‘green’.

1.

Plant Potatoes In Old Tyres.
When you’re finished with an old tyre, don’t throw it away. Instead, put it in a corner of your garden and plant a potato seed in the centre, covering it with 1cm of soil or compost.
As the plant grows, add soil to just short of the growing tip of the shoot. Keep adding soil, and more tyres if required (if you have them).
 
 

2.

Boiling Water For Cooking.
Do you need a pot of boiling water to cook something like pasta that cannot be cooked in the microwave?
Consider boiling the water in an electric jug or kettle first or if bringing a liquid to the boil in a pot, make sure you use a tight lid.
It takes 40{5d21ca8f3af2f37b0bc16927eb571d1ae99c4ba19a2ec08b589c9cc4ef87832d} more energy to bring water to the boil without a lid than with one.
 
 

3.

Freeze Your Vegetable Scraps into “Stock Bricks”.

Keep carrot peels, onion ends, herb stalks in a bag in the freezer — boil once full to make free, zero-waste veggie stock. 

 
 

4.

Use Space Heaters To Save Energy Over Central Heating.

 

 

To save energy (and money) on heating, get yourself an energy-saving space heater, for those times during the day when you’re only using a small part of the house (watching TV, eating or sleeping, for example).
Recent decades have been the hottest in 400 years so we can all do our part by using less energy. Heating (and cooling) accounts for up to 50{5d21ca8f3af2f37b0bc16927eb571d1ae99c4ba19a2ec08b589c9cc4ef87832d} of the energy an average home uses during the year.
Space heaters use about 86{5d21ca8f3af2f37b0bc16927eb571d1ae99c4ba19a2ec08b589c9cc4ef87832d} less energy than a typical central heating system.
 
 

5.

Avoid Peak Power Periods.
The highest demands for electricity are from 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Wherever possible, try to avoid using large appliances such as dryers, washers, and ovens during these times.
 
 

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