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Simple Solutions to Protect Water Conserve Energy Improve Air Quality Reduce Waste
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Why It Matters
4 Area of Impact
Water Energy Air Quality Waste
Little Steps
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Leaky toilets can waste as much as 200 gallons of water/day. Check with your city, some will pay you to replace toilets with lor or duel-flush
Set the water level when doing laundry to match Washing clothes consumes over 20% of the load size. household water use.
Do not put hazardous waste in the trash. This Toxic materials dumped down the drain includes medicine paint, batteries and fertilizer. eventually end up in our water supply. Most can be recycled. Take shorter showers. Try to stay under 10 minutes.
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Shortening your shower by one minute can save 150 gallons of water/month.
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Save Energy
The Problem
Most energy is created by burning carbon based oil, natural gas, or coal. Your home is where you have the most control over how much energy you use yet most people are unaware of how much energy they use.
Reduce Waste
The Problem
People in the U.S. Generate about 230,000,000 TONS of trash every year. Thats about 4-1/2 pounds per person per day and less than 25% is recycled.
Reuse, donate, or recycle clothing and Take items you no longer want to a consignment household items instead of throwing them away. shop and you may make a small amount while doing good for the environment.
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Indore air quality is one of the EPAs top 5 environmental risks to public health. Better to avoid using them when possible.
Use products that do not contain ammonia or 75% of Americans live with someone who VOCs (Volatile organic compounds) are emitted suffers from asthma, allergies, or other as gases from certain solids or liquids. respiratory illnesses.
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None Cost More & Some Save You Money. Help Us Preserve a Healthy Planet for Our Children, Grandchildren, and Generations to Come.
50 years from now, if ever y household in the U.S. did just these four simple changes, we could save 4,400,000,000 pounds of landfill waste 12,700,000,000 barrels of oil 30,300,000,000 trees that would not be cut down 8,400,000,000,000 KWH of electricity 12,200,000,000,000 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions
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I use non-toxic and biodegradable cleaning products. I x all leaky faucets or toilets. When doing laundry, I set the water level to low, medium, or high to match the load size. I do not put hazardous materials in the trash. This includes medicine, paint, oil, baeries, and ferlizer. I take no longer than 10 minutes to shower.
Anything that goes down the drain ends up in the water supply. Leaky toilets can waste as much as 200 gallons of water/day. Replace toilets with low-ow or duel-ush toilets.
Hazardous materials dumped down the drain eventually end up in the water supply Shortening your shower by one minute can save 150 gallons of water per month.
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Save Energy
My Behavior Never/Rarely Somemes Usually/Always The Impact
I adjust the thermostat +/- 20 and turn o lights when no one is in a room
These 2 items alone could save you as much as 15% of your total household electricity use. Even more by switching to CFL or LED lights. 90% of energy used to wash clothes is used just to heat the water. A dryer is the second-biggest electricity using appliance aer the refrigerator. Typical cost to run a dryer over its lifeme is $1,800. A 60-wa bulb can be replaced by a 13-wa CLF or 7-wa LED. Both save money over their life. 75% of the power used by appliances and electronics is used when the items are not being used.
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I walk or ride a bicycle somewhere rather than driving when possible. I carpool or use mass transit. I use cleaning products that do not create harmful fumes. I store all harmful chemicals outside of the house. I use products that are free from chlorine bleach, ammonia and other causc chemicals.
Every gallon of gasoline saved avoids 22 pounds of carbon monoxide emissions. Vehicle exhaust contributes roughly 60% of all carbon monoxide emissions naonwide Polluon inside is typically 2 to 5 mes worse than the air outside Indoor air quality is on of the EPAs top 5 environmental risks to public health. Avoid using toxic chemicals even beer. 75% of Americans live with someone who suers from asthma, allergies, or other respiratory illnesses
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I use a reusable drinking cup instead of disposable boles. I take my own bags to the grocery store.
I use concentrated products. I recycle aluminum, paper, glass, and plasc. Oen overlooked are ink cartridges which should be relled and recycled. I reuse, donate, or recycle clothing or household items instead of throwing them away
The US uses 1,500 plasc water boles every second. Americans use approximately 1 Billion plasc shopping bags every year, creang 300,000 Tons of landll waste. 50 Million plasc boles are thrown away every day in the US. 2x concentrated reduces plasc use by 50%. 6x by 83% For every pound of trash you recycle, you save energy and reduce CO2 emissions by 1 pound. Making products with recycled materials also saves new materials. The amount of disposed items in the US has more than doubled in the past 50 years.
Whats your impact score? If most of the boxes checked are green, youre Leading by Example. Congratulaons! If most of the boxes checked are yellow, you have Room to Improve. If most of the boxes checked are red, its me for you to take acon.
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