I spend a lot of time in my bathroom. As a matter of fact, some of my most brilliant ideas have been developed in that room. So it's always nice to find ways to make it greener. Here are 5 easy, easy tips (did I mention they were easy) to green your bathroom:
- Fill a 1/2 gallon milk bottle with water, cover it and put it in your toilet tank. Older toilets can use up to 5 gallons of water with each flush. Newer toilets use about 2 gallons. By putting a sealed bottle in your tank, it'll reduce the amount of water that is consumed with each flush. Click here to watch a video of this idea.
- Substitute your plastic/vinyl shower curtain for one made out of cotton, linen, hemp or other natural materials. This will reduce your VOC exposure, and will also be greener, since you can wash it and re-use it many times.
- Switch to recycled toilet paper. Do you know that if every household in the United States replaced just one roll of regular toilet paper with 100% recycled toilet paper, we’d save almost half a million trees? Personally, I use Marcal; it's a fraction of the cost of brand name toilet paper, and 100% recycled.
What are you waiting for? Get crackin'!
1 comment:
I love the toilet tank suggestion...definitely gonna put my parents onto that one, thanks!
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