How to make a clean environmentally friendly and save

Each person producesDisposal of waste in Russia. How to reform the industry an average of about 400 kg of waste per year. According to the members of the Coordinating Board of Trustees, the organization "Public environmental monitoring of Russia" Ruben Melkonyan, the annual growth of household waste in Moscow alone isExpert: Muscovites make twice as much garbage, than residents of other cities of Russia 2,5%. This means that the amount of waste has doubled every 40 years.

At the same time, to reduce the amount of waste produced, it is not necessary to take super efforts: to give enough of all single-use things again and replace the standard household chemicals into simple tools that are in the house each.

The use of dangerous household chemicals

Effective household cleaning products may contain in its composition components, which have a negative effect on health and the environment. If the facility has chlorine, and therefore sodium hypochlorite, it is annoying

Sodium hypochlorite solution 5-10% Cl, technical skin and eyes. Ammonia also causesAmmonia solution D3 25% solution in D2O 99 Atom% D burns of mucous membranes and respiratory tract irritation. Detergents containing these substances, and are also dangerous to aquatic organisms. They fall into the sewer network to the treatment plant and then into the soil and water bodies, polluting the biosphere. To avoid this, choose the means, the last reliable eco-certification. Here are its main marking "leaf of life», Ecocert, ICEA. Such funds have gentle composition, but usually cost more than the standard.

What can replace household chemicals

To make the cleaning of the most secure, you can opt for a five simple toolsWhich is in every house: baking soda, vinegar, salt, lemon and soap. They will cope with the task of not worse and save your money, and you give up detergent in plastic and cut the amount of its consumption.

1. Vinegar perfectly cleans windows and mirrors. Mix it with water at a ratio of 1: 5 and spray spray or coat the glass cloth. Then wipe dry with a newspaper or a towel.
2. Soap cope with dirty dishes and hook or gender. One pack costs about 50 rubles, and it lacks a long time.
3. Lemon quickly removes limescale deposits from faucets and cleans smudges from the hob. Simply rub a slice of lemon and a valve after 5 minutes remove the remaining juice. If a case is heavy, wet a cloth with lemon juice and leave it on the crane for a couple of hours.
4. Soda and ammonia washed clean yellowed bathtub. Apply ammonia on the surface with a sponge and leave for half an hour. Then sprinkle baking soda, wait 5 more minutes and rub. Then carefully rinse bath.
5. From scaling the kettle will help eliminate two teaspoons of citric acid. Just pour them in, pour a few liters of water and boil.
6. Burnt leftovers from the pan or pans are cleaned salt, baking soda and vinegar. Pour into a container two tablespoons of salt, vinegar fill to the bottom disappeared, and bring the mixture to reflux. Reduce heat, add three tablespoons of baking soda and leave for another 10 minutes.

On what else can be saved during the harvest

It is also an eco-friendly style cleaning is careful use of water and electricity. According to the SNP, water application rate consumers living in high-rise building (more than 12 floors) with centralized water supply compriseSNIP 2.04.01-85 * "Domestic water supply and sewerage of buildings" average 360 ​​liters per day, 115 of them hot. Using the tips below, per day, you can save up to 200 liters. If you reduce the daily consumption of hot water up to 70 liters (that's 25.6 cubic meters per year), and cold - 130 (it is 47.5 cubic meters per year), annual savings of about 7 thousand. (To calculate the tariffs are takenIn Moscow, will increase tariffs on utility services of the water in Moscow: 198.19 rubles per cubic meter of hot and 40.48 Ruble per cubic meter cold).

As for the cost of electricity, according to a studyElectricity consumption average resident Moscow Energy Center, the average resident spends for the year of 160 kW, wasteful - 240, and economical - 40. The flat-rate tariff priceElectricity tariffs for the population in Moscow. Effective as of July 1, 2019 1 kW is 5.47 rubles.

• Use the European method of washing dishes: turn off the water while soaping cups and plates. You can plug the sink, get water and wash the dishes in it, then rinse with cool water all - it is less hot.
• Do not rinse trash the toilet - this can lead to clogging, due to which you have the additional cost of plumbing. In addition, each time you are washing off immediately spend 6-10 liters of water.
• Set the single-lever mixer with aerator. So you do not have long to adjust the temperature of the water, something to rinse. In turn, the aerators are designed to restrict the flow without reducing the intensity of the jet. However, it should be attentive to the choice: not all devices do save water.
• Water the flowers with water left after washing fruits and vegetables, collecting it in a separate container.
• Make a choice in favor of toilets with two buttons on the cistern. He wisely use water, because you can choose the minimum descent or completely empty the tank.
• If possible, get out in daylight. But the dishwasher and washing machine turn on after 23:00, if you have installed two or trohtarifnye electricity meters.
• Get a device that will help to spend less electricity: brightness control and motion sensors to turn on and turn off the light in the room.
• Replace incandescent bulbs to LED. LED-lamp They are more expensive, but consume up to 8 times less electricity.

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Applying these guidelines, you'll save in a year several thousand, to reduce the use of plastic packages, reduce chemical emissions into the environment and learn cares for himself and his environment.