Ecodirect

Don’t know where to start? Helping the environment doesn’t have to be complicated, and you can do it individually. By doing some new things or making small changes to your routines you can help our planet.

Here is a list of things you could do:

1. Recycle: recycle paper, plastics and glass, and make sure you throw batteries and cooking oil to the correct containers.

2. Use your car less. You have probably hear this many times, but that’s because it’s important! Use public transport, or carpool. You can also ride a bike or go walking (with the added bonus that you are working out).

3. Read in a different way. Are you a bookworm? Instead of always buying new books, check if your library has them, ask to borrow them from a friend, look for them in PDF format, buy them second hand or buy them for your e-reader (amazon has a free app that you can download. This way you can read from any device you wish).

4. Eat less meat. Veganism is waaaay better than the environment than a diet that consumes meat and products from animal origin is. Let me out it this way: if you have a cow, you need to give that cow water, and you also need to water the plants that cow is going to eat. You need space for that cow and space for the plants that cow will at. If everybody went vegan, less water would be used, there would be more space available for planting, and there would be more food by square meter. Animals are very efficient intermediaries, which means that (this is not accurate) in order to eat a hamburger, you probably consumed more water and plants that you would need to at if you only ate plants and water. Animals also release a lot of harmful gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect. If you can go vegan, that’s great (for the environment and your health), but if you can’t, just reducing the amount of meat you consume will help.

5. Go zero-waste or consider some zero-waste alternatives. Zero-waste lifestyles are ones in which no plastic is used. Maybe you can’t go zero-waste, but you could consider reducing the use of plastic. Some zero-waste alternatives are bamboo toothbrushes or metal razors. Instead of using shampoo that comes in a plastic container, you can uy solid shampoo (Lush has a big variety of solid shampoos). Make your period more eco-friendly. Use menstrual cups instead of tampons or pads

6. Use less water. You have probably heard this many times. Make your showers faster, and turn off the water while you put shampoo in your hair. Something else you can do to waste less water is put a bucket in your shower, and let the water fall in the bucket while it’s heating up. You can later use that water to flush the toilet or water plants.

7. Stop using plastic water bottles. Get a water bottle that you can use more than one time. Steel or glass water bottles are great.

8. Reduce. Use less. You have probably bought a lot of things throughout the years that you haven’t used. Think twice before buying something. Are you really going to use it? Do you actually need it?

9. Reuse. Try DIYing before throwing something away.

10. Give things a second life. If you have things you no longer want or that you don’t use, don’t throw them away. Sell them, give them to a family member or donate them to charity. This way you will reduce your waste.

11. Buy from sustainable places. Maybe buy your clothes from slow fashion instead of fast fashion. Buy from companies that are sustainable and eco friendly.

12. Use Ecosia. Ecosia is an eco-friendly search engine than donates 80% of their profits to tree planting. It works just like any other search engine.

13. Throw trash to the bin. Please don’t be that person that leaves trash on the ground. If there is no trash bin around, put it in your pocket and throw it when you get home. But don’t contaminate.

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