| 'Get Green' is our online resource to help you find ways you can do your bit to help the environment. Many of us are looking at ways to move towards a greener lifestyle with more recycling taking place in our country than ever before and people making the most of the public transport system, now is the time to decrease your carbon footprint. So these are our top 10 tips to a greener future: |
- Why not walk to work once a week, it will help you cut your carbon emissions and make you a happier and healthier person.
- Turtles sometimes mistake plastic bags floating in the sea for jellyfish, one of their favourite foods, and can die when they try and eat them, so try not to take them to the beach with you.
- Change to energy saving life bulbs. They are a little bit dearer, but each one can pay for itself within six months and lasts up to 12 years.
- Turn your TV (and mobile phone charger, computer, radio...) off standby when you’ve finished with them. Ask yourself: is the ‘convenience’ of leaving the hall light on or the TV on standby worth the, on average, £37 per year you could save if you didn’t? We’ll leave the maths to you.
- Insulate your home for a warmer, cheaper and greener winter. Doubleglaze windows.
- 'Grow Your Own' With all that money you’re saving you could even think about getting a solar panel. Why not generate your own energy? Solar power is already a viable alternative in temperate Britain.
- Buying locally produced food cuts down the plane and truck emissions made to get it to your plate.
- Recycle paper, bottles, cans and more through your local authority or nearest recycling bank. Reuse carrier bags and envelopes, and donate things you don’t need to charity shops. And reduce the amount of refuse you send of to landfill sites by not buying needlessly or heavily packaged goods and produce.
- When you’re cooking always use a lid on your pan - it dramatically cuts the energy used.
- Always put a full load in your washing machine - small loads waste large amounts of energy.
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