Eco Living

I'll update this later but...

1) Trying to reduce rubbish... recycling, using moon cup, cloth naps at night

2) Trying to reduce electricity (will add link later)

3) Growing veges (currently not very successful)

4) Buying locally made products

5) Making clothes/recycling clothes (or buying stuff where little Chinese kids aren't being exploited... tho I did just go shopping at Glassons )

6) Reusable shopping bags

7) Trying to reduce water usage as well. Shorter showers and toilet flushes (I was appalled at myself when I flushed after using paper to blow my nose! Surely that could have sat there until the next person came along!)

Lets see...

1. Cloth nappies, cloth wipes

2. Mooncup and cloth pads

3. Recycle everthing we can

4. Try to buy eco friendly products only

5. Working on a better vege garden than last season!!!

6. Try to reduce electricity (turning things off at the wall when not in use etc)

7. Eco bulbs

8. Try to reduce car trips to only necessary trips (must admit it is much easier in summer though when walking is more pleasant!!!!)

9. Reusable shopping bags or if we forget them (which is often I'm embarrassed to say) then we recycle the plastic bags.

10. Almost forgot....composting.

Edited by Paws

* Reusable shopping bags

* Very unsuccessfully trying to grow own veges (damm                    neighbors cats digging and pooing in my garden)

* composting

* Currently replacing blown bulbs with eco bulbs

* Recycling

Planning on walking the kids to school in summer instead of using the car.

I'm a work in progress

Learning more and more what I can recycle. It is actually kind of crazy what stuff you can recycle. Opened my eyes up totally.

We use the bags we get for the rubbish bin so that is double use out of it.

Other thing is use a disposable nappy that last longer. (not going to go in a debate about which is better mcn or dispasable. )

Be energy efficient as much as possible.

And oh yeah both of us never smoked. I count that one as well.

*Cloth nappies
*vege garden that we are currently making at our new house
*Reusabe bags
*Composting
*Cutting down on car usage

Opps and
*Recycling more
*Wet back fire when we move
*Soloar heating when we move

Making a big effort to recycle as much as possible (yay for the Council widening the recycle to include nos. 1 to 5! instead of just 2s and 3s!)

Chase the husband around the house, turning off all the lights he leaves on

Trying to cut down on shower time, and instead of using (for dishes) a scrubber brush and continuous running hot water to rinse/wash dishes, I run a sink full and use that.

We use recyclable/cloth bags for shopping, and refuse bags wherever possible - paper ones if we get them get recycled. We also try not to use the light plastic vege bags at the supermarket.

Using Ecostore products - esp. for washing clothes. We've cut fabric softener out entirely!

Goals:

Get a worm farm/bin, we're just waiting for our budget to come right a bit (My mum has a worm farm, and puts the complete kits together). I figure that little kids will love it, and it's eco friendly as well.

A vege garden. I need to clear part of the back of our property first and have been very slack, but we're going to do it in pots because the only usable space (clay!) we really have is no good for growing in.


What's a mooncup? And where can you get reusable pads from, and how do they work? Considering I only use one/two every month (the first night of AF, possibly the 2nd), it wouldn't be a hardship to cut that waste down from hitting the environment. Or to cut the cost out of my budget!

Seriously? What about leakage ...?

I hve a feeling DH has mentioned these before ... they're popular with trampers apparently. Thanks for the linky Paws!

Now that I have the knack of inserting it I don't bother with liners. And yeah I only empty it once a day too. I wouldn't go back to tampons either!!!

We try to be good....

Recycle everything that we possibly can, even though I absolutley hate washing out the cat food tins....I do it religously.

Wherever possible I buy refills for things like handsoap, fabric softener etc, and where practical we buy eco-store / eco friendly products....have to say a lot of this is to do with my allergies / asthma as well.

All waste food goes into gurgler (waste disposal) - until we are in our own place and I can get a worm farm / compost bin.

In summer I grow all own organic spray free herbs, tomatoes, capsicums - but have given up on winter!!

The only shopping that goes into plastic bags is the meat - as it always leaks. Otherwise I have a varied collection of fabric bags for the shopping!

Only run the dishwasher when full, take shorter showers (we arent long shower people anyway), and limit baths to once a week (and then we always recycle each others baths - DH normally gets in after me!!!)

I cant quite bring myself to use a mooncup - just a personal thing though. Good on all of you that do!!