20 ecological gestures to adopt
At home
1. Turn off the tap when brushing your teeth: it will save you from wasting 10,000 liters of water a year!
2. Renounce the bathroom (from 150 to 200 liters of water) in favor of a shower (from 30 to 70 liters of water). It is better for blood circulation and ecology.
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3. Forget the water in plastic bottles and rather invest in a filter jug that purifies the tap water.
4. Don't overdo the warm-up. Install a thermostat to maintain a temperature of 16 ° C in the rooms and 19 ° C in the other rooms. By lowering the temperature by even one degree, you will consume 7% less energy.
5. Replace classic light bulbs with low energy consumption light bulbs. They consume 5 times less electricity. While they are more expensive, they last much longer.
6. Always think about turning off the light when you leave a room and do the same with household appliances (television, VCR, CD-DVD players, computers…). These consume 10% more electricity when they are on standby.
7. Defrost the freezer regularly. A layer of only 4mm of ice can double the electricity consumption.
8. Replace your liquid detergent with a phosphate-free powder. Or even better, use a wash nut, an organic product that cleans without attacking the fabrics and can be used multiple times.
9. Do not be discouraged by separate collection: be careful to separate household waste well. For more information, visit the website: http://educambiente.iport.it/
When you shop
1. When shopping, use foldable and reusable shopping bags. Avoid plastic bags: it takes more than 400 years to be destroyed in nature!
2. Prefer local and seasonal products: you will help reduce the pollution caused by the transport of exotic products!
3. Keep the original bottles that you can fill with handy refills (dish soap, clothes detergent, shower gel…).
4. Buy washable nappies for your baby! A disposable nappy takes 300 years to destroy and a baby needs at least 5,000 nappies to be always clean!
At the office
1. Print fewer documents and do not hesitate to use the back of the sheets already used (for internal communications, such as bad sheets ...).
2. Encourage your company to adopt ecological behaviors: reasonable use of air conditioning and heating, recycling of paper, choice of suppliers who apply environmentally friendly policies, transfer of unused IT material to associations, purchase of refillable supplies ...
3. Propose that everyone have their own cup for coffee, so as to say goodbye to plastic cups ...
In transport
1. Choose the train for long journeys.
To get an idea of the carbon dioxide emitted by different means of transport, per person, on a Milan - Rome journey:
Car: 178 kg (for the driver only, 89 kg with a passenger)
Airplane: 97 kg (when full)
Eurostar: 3kg
2. Use the most environmentally friendly means of transport to travel short distances: feet. Walking is good for health and for the planet!
3. Arrange with colleagues, friends and family to take turns taking the car. Currently, a car is occupied by an average of 1.2 people.
To know more:
Consult the website of the Ministry of the Environment and the protection of the territory and the sea: www.minambiente.it
