今天的垃圾日？
You’re laying in bed when all of a sudden you hear the garbage truck. It’s trash day and you forgot to put your cans, again.
What do you do? If you’re like the rest of us, you scramble to get out of bed, because you can’t afford to let your garbage pile build-up anymore.
Every year Americans contribute over2500万吨of garbage to the world. If you’re tired of looking at growing trash mounds in your house, or you want to help the planet, you have to learn how to manage waste at home.
Imagine how different your life would be if you could reduce the trash in your home by 50% or more. Instead of rushing to beat the garbage truck, you could lay back in bed, knowing you can afford to wait until next week.
Are you ready to be less trashy? Read on to learn about the simplest ways to manage trash.
如何在家里管理垃圾
Learning how to manage waste, is all about finding simple ways you can cut down on your trash contribution right now. For instance, do you use plastic bags for your grocery shopping?
A small, and easy step you can take, is to start using cloth bags instead of plastic. You’ll soon find that you’ll begin using your bags for all sorts of things that aren’t even related to grocery shopping. Clothes, household items, pet needs, all can benefit from cloth bags.
When you cut plastic bags out of your life, you’ll instantly reduce the amount of garbage you bring it to your home. We suggest buying more than one reusable cloth bag, or insulated bag, and storing them in your kitchen. After you get comfortable using the new bags, you can begincomposting at home也。
Less Packaging Is Better
Ready for another easy way to reduce waste that you probably didn’t think about? Start paying attention to the packaging on your food.
Here are a few tips to buy food with less packaging:
- Buy food in bulk
- Choose brands that use less packaging
- Buy household items in bulk
- Avoid microwave dinners
- Find dairy items with returnable containers
- 去农民的市场
The next time you go grocery shopping, pay close attention to the packaging your food is in. When you open a food item at home, notice how many bags within bags there are. For example, a lot of food items that have single-serving sizes will individually wrap each serving.
Cutout Microwave Dinners
如果您注意到许多食物可以访问包装材料，请尝试找到替代产品。如果您是微波晚餐的粉丝，您可以使用很多访问包装来吃小餐。相反，考虑在您的一些即时膳食中进行交易，以获得美味的自制选择。
乳制品容器
接下来,您还可以找到一个的乳品企业llow you to bring back the containers. Finally, when all else fails, try buying the majority of your groceries at local farmer’s markets. You’ll be supporting your community, while also cutting down on the amount of packaging for your food.
Reuse Durable Containers
A big part of reducing waste is finding multipurpose uses for everyday items. Durable containers are a great place to start. When you’re throwing things away, keep the sturdy containers that are durable enough to reuse.
这是一个容器的候选名单，您应该考虑重新使用：
- Bottles
- Boxes
- 包
- 玻璃容器
- Plastic containers
- Paper bags
如果您没有回收站，纸袋可以是救生员。现在，您可以轻松地将所有塑料和其他可回收物品存放在厨房的拐角处，在一个直立的纸袋中。如果您需要制作封面以保护您最喜欢的书籍之一，纸袋也很棒。
Print on Both Sides
If you have a printer, you should be reusing the paper by printing things on both sides. For kids, have them do their arts and crafts on the back of any printed paper that you don’t need.
食物容器
Anytime you come into contact with a sturdy glass container that doesn’t contain any dangerous chemicals, keep it for storing food. Plastic containers also work great for storing food, however, they’ll have less shelf life. Over time, plastic does start to break down and can leak chemicals into your food.
Avoid Bottled Drinks
瓶装水，能量饮料和各种瓶装饮料对环境不利。这些瓶子最终堆积并成为地球的巨大废物来源。如果你住在没有自来水的地区，这是安全饮酒的，请考虑为家庭购买过滤器。
但是，如果自来水是安全的，你在家里喝酒，请开始使用可重复使用的容器来运输你的水。如果你想把事情带到下一级，请继续喝水的东西。例如，而不是购买12包柠檬水，或苏打水，尝试制作混合饮料。
买散装
如果您仍然需要过滤水，或者您有一个最喜欢的苏打品牌，您就不能没有，购买大容器而不是个人尺寸。例如，获得一加仑的水而不是一个微小的水瓶。这样，你会买较少的塑料，同时仍然得到你需要的过滤水。
削减纸张使用
纸浪费很容易拥有，你甚至可能没有注意到你正在做的事情。在厨房柜台上堆积的票据，铺设的未读报纸和杂志，都是正常的，在某人的房子里找到。但是，所有这些物品都会导致过量的纸浪费。
Instead, try to find ways to go paperless with all the company’s you have business with. Bills, bank statements, health insurance, are all notices you can have sent electronically by email. If you like reading the newspaper or magazines, consider reading them online.
Do you get a lot of junk mail? If so, take the necessary steps to unsubscribe yourself from their mailing list.
如果您拥有所有更新，请以无纸化形式出现，您不必担心浪费树木，您将削减纸质废物。当他们全部是数字时，你很可能会发现它更容易跟踪您的记录。
Feel Good About Your Trash
You should be proud of yourself for taking the time to learn how to manage waste in your home. The world needs environmentally savvy people like you to help keep things beautiful.
Are you looking for more ways to do your part with the environment? Going green is easier than you think. Go ahead and check out the rest of this site.
