How to be a green student
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Nowadays we know that we need to think about the environment. It is so important for life on earth. But many people don't want to be green people or don't have an interest in do something to change the world. Sometimes they are busy, trying to get your own family things that they forget we have to protect nature. It is in your hand dear student. You can make a difference in the future if you grow up thinking about it.
Reduce
In your Study house in Southampton, you can reduce your consumption. You can use the peels of the potatoes to fry. or use the pineapple peel to make juice. Using porcelain and glass in your kitchen can reduce plastics. Don’t leave your faucets running during brush your teeth or shower. Put a pot with water to wash the dishes and use the water only to rinse.
Reuse
One of the alternatives to be a green person is to reuse a lot of things that you have at home. Remember that toothbrush you don't use anymore? Yeah, you can boil this toothbrush and use to wash little corner that you can't clean with a mop. Or the bag of your supermarket shop. You can use it to put the trash. Take a bottle of water with you. Remember that soap pot? You can use it to do a shovel. The pot of ice cream you bought a use like containers to store other foods. You can use natural objects in your decoration. Use cloth napkin in your kitchen and after use wash and dry. Put your machine in ECHO washing. At studyhome, you can use mugs to drink your coffee and others things. But you can take a specific cup to drink your coffee at the University. There are many options that they don’t spill.
Recycle
Don’t forget to organize your garbage. You have to separate all of them. Try to use recycled paper and plastic. Remember nowadays people don’t like to reuse some objects in their homes. Them when you use recycled material you can help the environment. To solve this you can replace your Studyhome object for that you can wash it. Avoid buying industrial food. They have so many plastics and steel. You can improve your health and help the environment. Recycle is not only plastics and steel. You can sell your old clothes and books and earn money. But if you don’t want to do it. You can make donations. Remember that book from school or your first year from University. Take them and offer them on the marketplace from Facebook. Maybe one student is needing.
Sustentable transporte
Do you know what is the most sustainable transport in your life? No? Them you will say to you now. BIKE. The bike is great for everything. You can save money, time, and the environment. One bike can stay with you almost your entire life. If you take care of it. Think about it. You can make exercise during your biking, Observe the environment. A bike is therapy because you have to pay attention to the traffic or the places that you are riding. You take some wind in your face, this is refreshing during the summer, fall, and spring. In the Spring you can see flowers, stop to smell the perfume. And the bike doesn’t need the fuel for your ride. Now in the winter is so hard to ride a bike, then you can use public transportation. This is less aggressive for the environment. Avoid cars. Imagine if all the people start to drive. How much gas do smog you imagine that will we see? Them you many people avoid the cars and use the public transportation it will be less smog in the cities.
Power usage
Do you have in your studyhome a lot of appliances? then when you aren’t using turn it off from the energy power. Plug your appliances on the power plug only if you will use them. Your cellphone uses about 2-3 hours to charge. don’t leave more than that. Your laptop has a battery, you can charge it in one or two hours and after start uses the battery and uses it until the laptop died. After you charge again. Don’t forget the lights. If you aren’t in the space, turn it off. The light made of LED can help you to save more energy. You can replace all the lamps in your Southampton student accommodation with LEDs. LEDs use ⅕ the energy that a common bulb use. The LEDs are more expensive than the others bulbs but you will see the savings in your energy bill.
Buy local eat local
Sometimes the fruits and vegetables are expensive if you buy them at the supermarket. But you can choose a day and go to the local market farms and buy from the farmers directly. Sometimes the farmers market can be far away from your Study house in Southampton. But you can separate a day to go there and buy the fruits and vegetables for your entire week or fortnight. You have ways to conserve food. Do you lie in Southampton student accommodation outside the campus? Then maybe you have a lot of space in the yard. What do you think to make your own vegetable garden? You can buy the soil and the seeds to plant. Are you ready to start?
Don’t forget the package or bag when you go to the supermarket. When you go shopping prefer clothes that have a green stamp. But sometimes these brands are so expensive. Then how can you solve this. Don’t buy it. Think about it. When you see these clothes you have to think: I will use these clothes 30 times. If you think that you won’t use it. Don’t buy it. Or you can buy a second hand. You can buy bikes, clothes, shoes, sports equipment and others.
