Title:
Best ways to help with climate change. Series. Part 4.

Help with climate change,

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Water saving in the home

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Another way I save using dish water is when I clean the fridge I do the dishes either just before or just after washing out the fridge with the dish water.

Being there is generally only two of us at home I find with using the above rinsing method for the dishes I also can often get away with only having to do the dishes once a day which I have measured out that I can do this with 12 liters on average. Ten for the sink, two for the rinsing. The only difference of having guests is I do more dishes and sometimes that means more often, but often it means two sinks of dish water.

When using an at home reverse osmosis system, we do not have the pressure storage tank that looks like a gas cylinder, instead we use water bottles and a water well to store and serve our potable and drinking water from, this is very effective at making the users of the water not waist the water by taking more than they really want or need and pore the rest down the drain, even without you having to say a thing to any visitors other than say yes to their request of can they have a drink or some water.

Where possible, and that is most of the time in most cases, wear clothes more than once before washing them, this can be easily achieved by having you cloths grouped, home, work/school, shopping and good wear, and changing from / to them as soon as you get home or get ready to go out. I found I could get 2-3 wears out of work or school cloths and up to four for good wear, before I had to wash them. If I hadn't left school and sold the uniforms, like much of my good wear it is still good over ten even twenty years later for some items, I even have a skirt I wear shopping that I have had for over 20 years ( since I was 10) that I used to wear to school as a long skirt. Just by not washing it every time it was worn. This reduces the number of wash loads you need to do.

We also found most cloths don't have to be sorted to colours and whites now days so being we have a 7.7kg washing machine we collect our washing till we have at least 5 kg before doing a wash where possible, even most delicates are not all that delicate and can go in a special bag that gets put in with the rest of the wash. Of course there are those items that no matter what you can only wash them with like items.

If you have air conditioning put a bucket or some other water collection / storage container under where the water condensation exits the system and use it for things other than making a useless puddle under the system.

If you have your carpets and furnishing cleaned by extraction method see if you can get the person cleaning to put the waste water on your lawn, in most cases the products used are safe for this to be done. Even if you use a DIY system and do it yourself this is the case more often than not.

A miniature dust pan set, or crumb brush and pan are a good investment when used correctly. You use the brush to sweep the crumbs, or spilt flour, sugar etc. into the pan then if you need to wash the remnants of the spill you wont need to use as much water to rinse the cloth as you wont have to rinse as much from the cloth.

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