Parenting Australia

How to make your home eco-friendly

Educating yourself and your children about the three R’s Reduce Recycle and Reuse can make a real difference in both our world today and in our children’s futures. By following a few simple steps that in time will become habit can really put your family in the right direction to making your family home as eco friendly as possible.

Things you could do may include reusing boxes and bottles where safe and donating products to your local preschool, kindergarten, public school or community centre so they can be reused in creative and functional ways which will help reduce waste. When shopping you could buy products with minimal packaging and purchase refillable products, purchasing eco friendly detergents and cleaners helping our water ways. 

Conserving water is a really important topic with some areas of Australia still on very strict water restrictions. Your family can help by taking shorter showers, only using appliances like dishwashers and washing machines when full and using waste water on your grassed areas. You can also help out by having a water tank installed to recycle the water from your downpipes capturing that precious rain.

Other ways to help can include recycle as much of your rubbish as possible by sorting it according to your councils request, installing a compost bin to break down food scraps, purchasing recycled products and donating your unwanted items to charity so someone else can use them and they are not put into landfill. Also replace incandescent light globes which with fluorescent globes which will help both your electricity bill and the environment and remember to turn off electrical devices at the wall when you are not using them.

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