15/ Invest in a set of glass tupperwares and jars
When you go to buy meat, fish or cheese, ask the shopkeeper to put your purchases into your own containers. Say goodbye to endlessly taking out the bins and to bad odours in the boot of your car when you’re on the way home from the butcher’s.
16/ Install a compost bin in your garden
Composting is something that should be made compulsory, because there is simply nothing easier than using a home compost system, and reducing the amount of waste that goes in the bin.
17/ Cook your food in the dishwasher
To save on water and electricity, there is nothing more effective than cooking food in the dishwasher, which will clean your dirty dishes at the same time as steam cooking your food (which is kept in an airtight container, of course!). An easy method with numerous advantages: no cooking odours (if you are cooking fish, for example), no humidity in the kitchen and no need to switch on the extractor fan!
18/ Swap your car for an electric bike
We can often be guilty of taking the car when we could have well gone somewhere by bike, and possibly even get there earlier. Because we mustn’t forget that cycling avoids traffic jams and parking problems! Of course, it can get more difficult when you need to make a longer trip, which is where the electric bike comes in.
19/ Stop smoking
You already know that smoking seriously damages your health. But it also seriously damages the environment, which is something we often forget. Every year, over 4,000 billion cigarette butts (that is 137,000 cigarette butts per second) pollute city streets, ski pistes, sandy beaches and country fields, endangering the soil and also the wild fauna.
20/ Use fabric handkerchiefs instead of tissues
The plastic wrapping on individually wrapped packets of disposable tissues that you buy in the supermarket in fact comprises of one of the most dangerous types of waste for the environment, as it frequently ends up on the beaches, in the oceans and in the bodies of animals who swallow them.
