How Green is Your Bathroom?
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
by Liesl Bradner
Want to make your home eco-friendly? Instead of taking on the entire house all at once, why not try one room at a time. Since the bathroom is a place we all tend to spend a lot of time in, let’s begin there. Here are some simple solutions to green your bathroom.
TOILET
We spend a lot of time here and every flush counts. Every flush uses between two to seven gallons of water.
- Avoid flushing the toilet unnecessarily. Dispose of tissues and other such waste in the trash rather than the toilet. During the 70’s water shortage in California, people were advised when it’s yellow let it mellow.
- Install low flush or dual flush toilets
SHOWER
Most people take at least one shower a day and use it as a place to relax, think and unwind. Unfortunately that Zen-shower experience is wasting tons of valuable water. (more…)