Living an eco-friendly lifestyle is highly important for several reasons. It will only improve your life after you begin to embrace it. That’s because an eco-friendly lifestyle improves your health by helping you avoid dangerous chemicals. Without exposure to these dangerous substances, you lower your risk of cancer, respiratory diseases and asthma. Cosmetics and food companies add these chemicals to their products, and they build up within your body. This leads to illnesses and degenerative conditions. 

Living an eco-friendly lifestyle also lowers your energy consumption. A smart home has appliances that are energy efficient, and they are also adequately insulated and have solar panels. This saves energy and causes you to use fewer fossil fuels and lowers your energy bills in the process. The use of plastic is one example. If you are using less plastic, fewer plastic products will be produced, and that saves a tremendous amount of energy!

Being environmentally responsible makes sense because it preserves the earth for future generations. As people have been cutting down too many trees, we have been losing our forests. Releasing noxious chemicals into the air has also been damaging to our plant and its environment. By reducing this bombardment of noxious chemicals and products, we increase the oxygen that human beings can breathe.

 

What Are Some Eco-Friendly Tips? 

The best thing to do is start slowly. You do not have to adopt all of these tips at once to make a positive impact. Just take one tip at a time.

 

Don’t Purchase Bottled Water.

Buying single-use plastic bottles of water is incredibly wasteful. A total of 80% of these bottles are not recycled. Besides that, to produce one bottle, you must use three times the amount of water that fits into one bottle! Because they aren’t being properly recycled, they end up in landfills and the ocean. The answer is to carry your water in a reusable bottle. Then, you save the oceans and the landfills.

 

Don’t Eat as Much Meat. 

Meat consumption adds a tremendous amount of pollution to the environment. According to the United Nations, the production of meat is responsible for generating 65% of human-produced nitrous oxide. This amount of nitrous oxide has 296 times the Global Warming Potential of carbon dioxide. Reducing the amount of meat that you eat will significantly reduce the amount of carbon dioxide that is released into the air. The solution would be to increase your vegetable and seafood consumption.

 

Dry Your Clothes on a Clothesline. 

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, a clothes dryer uses more energy than a dishwasher, a clothes washer and a refrigerator. When the days are hot and sunny, this is the perfect time to dry your clothes on a line. Besides that, clothes and other items last longer when you aren’t placing them in the harsh environment of your clothes dry. Some people don’t have a backyard for drying clothes, but you can use a drying rack on your balcony that will make it possible for you to take advantage of this essential tip.

 

What Is an Environmentally Friendly Habit You Can Adopt?

The following is an eco-friendly habit that your entire family can adopt:

Don't Use Single-Use Items.

Single-use plastic items are extremely wasteful because you only use them once and then throw them away. Instead of accepting a single-use plastic bag, for example, take a reusable bag to the grocery store. The following are other items that you can begin to refuse to accept: 

●      Paper napkins

●      Paper towels

●      Sandwich bags

●      Plastic utensils

●      Plastic and paper cups

●      Plastic water bottles

Buy Things Used.

Any time that you can, choose to buy a used item rather than a new one. Many stores sell good-quality used items, such as clothes, books, sports equipment and household goods. When you buy used, manufacturers do not have to use the resources that are required to make new products. You will find that this habit is more than just eco-friendly. It is also wallet-friendly because used items cost a lot less than new ones.

 

Begin to Upcycle.

Upcycling is something that you can do before you recycle. When you upcycle, you are not going to throw paper products, for example, into the recyclable bin. Instead, you will save your paper and use it in another way so that you get more life out of your paper products. When you receive brown paper, rather than throwing it in the recycle bin, keep it to wrap your Christmas presents and then you can decorate the paper.

In the long run, small changes can create a big impact.

 

Written by Taylor McKnight, Author for Microbial Insights