5 Best Things To Help You Lead An Eco-Friendly Lifestyle

Having an eco-friendly lifestyle means living in a manner that doesn’t harm the environment. Leading a life without wasting the resources available to you. By using the natural resources responsibly and controlling your carbon footprint. 

With global temperatures rising, the need for sustainable living is the need of the hour. You need to start making slight changes to your household and daily habits. The points discussed are simple to understand and implement but will have a positive impact on the environment.  

In this pandemic period, you might have heard different news related to nature getting better. River water getting clean naturally. Mountains that are hundreds of kilometers away became visible from the cities, because of reduced pollution.

All these changes that you have seen after lockdowns can be permanent if we all start living eco-friendly lifestyles. Here you can find the list of five tips that you can easily implement to lead an eco-friendly lifestyle.

 #1. Reducing Your Food-Related Waste

Every household around the world wastes tonnes of food. Along with food waste, food packagings are also a major part of the waste being generated.  

The food waste or its packaging mostly ends up in landfills or is burned. In any case, they end up polluting or damaging our environment. You can easily reduce such waste by consciously planning your food item purchases and their preparation.  

To reduce food packaging waste, you can start by carrying your own eco-friendly reusable coffee cup instead of using plastic disposable cups. You can also carry your own containers when you go out to get food packed for home.

You should plan your meals in a way to avoid any wastage. You can also make a new meal from the leftover meals like Indian mothers. Developing a mindset to avoid any food wastage will give you many ideas to reduce your food wastage.  

You can also use the food waste to make compost at your home. Compost can be used to grow vegetables. Growing your vegetable will also help you reduce your carbon footprint. As you would be able to reduce the fuel burnt to go to the market to get vegetables and packaging waste that is generated because of that.

By simply reducing your food wastage and related packaging waste, you will take your first step to lead an eco-friendly lifestyle.

#2. Saving Electricity

Saving electricity by conservatively using appliances will not only lower your electricity bill but will also help you contribute to saving the earth. As Most of the electricity is generated using non-renewable and polluting energy sources like coal and petroleum. By saving on electricity, you will be able to reduce your carbon footprint.

With the rising temperature, electricity consumption is also increasing worldwide. And the increased electricity consumption has resulted in more electricity being produced using polluting sources. This cycle of one thing leading to other is going on just like that. Although the use of renewable energy sources has increased, still coal is the major source of energy.

You can save on electricity by better designing your houses to get maximum benefits from natural light and ventilation. You should replace the normal lightbulbs with energy-efficient bulbs. Develop the habit of turning off the appliance when not in use, and turning the lights and fan off when leaving the room. These slight changes will contribute in a big way in helping reduce your electricity consumption.

Using electricity sustainably will help you in reducing your carbon footprint while you take another step towards an eco-friendly lifestyle.  

#3. Eco-friendly Travel

When you travel, lots of fuel gets burnt and greenhouse gases are emitted. So, you should consciously choose the most eco-friendly way of traveling. Whether you are commuting to your office, you must prefer the least polluting way of traveling. Wherever possible, you should prefer to travel by public transport as they are both economical and less polluting.

If you have to travel by your vehicle on daily basis, choose the one that pollutes less. You can buy an eco-friendly electric vehicle or CNG vehicle, which again are economical and pollutes less.  When traveling for longer distances outside your city, you can prefer trains over flights wherever possible.

By making conscious choices regarding your travel, you will move another step in leading an eco-friendly lifestyle.

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#4. Eliminating Single-use Plastics

Plastics are one of the most polluting things that humans have ever produced. You can find plastic and plastic waste everywhere from land to the sea. There are big garbage dumps in the sea, that are mostly filled with plastic waste. Read here about the North Atlantic Garbage Patch and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

The plastic never decomposes and ends up damaging the environment. There are many reported incidents related to damage caused by plastic materials. Check here the video of a plastic straw being stuck in a tortoise nose, or here for large amounts of plastics being found inside a dead whale. Something needs to be done about these overflowing plastics. Apart from plastic pollution, lots of greenhouse gases are emitted while producing plastic materials.

It is not possible to stop plastic production overnight but some impact can be made by restricting the use of single-use plastics. By getting rid of the plastic straws or plastic packaging, which are mostly only used once and then thrown away, will be an impactful step towards a plastic-free environment.

You can get started by stopping the use of single-use plastic in your daily routine. Instead, start switching to more eco-friendly products.   

#5. Using Eco-friendly Products

If you start replacing your daily routine products with eco-friendly products, it will help you in making a big switch to an eco-friendly lifestyle. Start to use eco-friendly products is all about making conscious choices. You can get started with this by switching to biodegradable bamboo toothbrushes or by starting to carry your own steel water bottles. These small changes in product choices will have a positive impact on the environment in long run.

Check here the complete list of such eco-friendly products that will help you in leading an eco-friendly life.

Conclusion

We often underestimate the impact of small changes. Believe me, making small changes in your daily routine to make environmentally conscious choices will help you in living a carbon-neutral life.  

Tips provided here to lead an eco-friendly lifestyle are easy to follow and don’t need much effort. You can start your journey of eco-friendly living with these basic steps and you will be leading an eco-friendly life and inspiring others.