Would These Green Efforts Make A Difference?

[LeonBlank1995]

1. Turn my washing machine to 1000 spin max and 40 C max. Evidently unless you have REALLY soiled clothing 40 C is fine.

2. Put a plastic "sack" of water in you loo. So it fills with less water yet still powerful enough to flush.

3. Don't flush just a wee away.

4. Put tea leaves (cut from a wet teabag) in the flowerbeds.

5. Turn all chargers and microwave off at the mains and take bulb from fridge.

6. Turn fridge down one point

7. And the oddest one..........save Chinese tubs, wash them and then take them in for your next takeaway.

Yes all the biggies like long haul flights, cars, become a veggie etc are just too difficult more many.

Do you believe EVERY LITTLE makes a difference or is this just nonsense?

[calmck]

I nearly always wash at 40. Use take away tubs instead of buying plastic containers, also ice cream tubs. I use coffee grounds for hydrangeas.

[davebro]

a difference - yes
a significant difference - no

[Mozz71]

Everyone has to act as their conscience allows. No one can change the world alone by acting greener, but if doing your bit makes you feel better, then great. It certainly isn't nonsense, and if everybody did it, who knows? It might make a difference.

[-SharonA-]

I cannot see why in these hot countries where they're having fires, that they cannot install water towers. Then every so often release the water and saturate the ground.

[barry1010]

I couldn't leave my wee in the loo - the whole area would be reeking of gents' urinals in no time. My tea leaves have always gone in the compost; a low spin would use more energy for me as the tumble dryer would take a lot longer; my modern, water saving loo usually needs at least two flushes as it is so inefficient; the colder the fridge the longer my food stays fresh.
Just how much electricity does a fridge bulb use during the few seconds the door is open? The fridge would get warmer in the extra time spent looking for things in a dark fridge and take more electricity to cool back down.

[Peter Pedant]

// I cannot see why in these hot countries ....... install water towers.//

I must not c/p - - - oh easy one - expenditure ( lots) without a visible outcome ( rarity of fires hem hem)
would not elect anyone if they tried it

Nicola S is having difficulty in being green and refusing an oil field opening because her voters know how much moolah it will bring them.....and want the moolah
( sozza I can see the parallel altho you may not)

[Peter Pedant]

I re use my bog paper - should I be confessing that on AB?
I have a bidet which shifts the major work ....

[Peter Pedant]

I dont blow my nose or anyfing ! on it
ugh

[rowanwitch]

If everyone did little things there would be a cumulative difference. I use bath water to water the plants on my balcony ( can't have a shower as water pressure is too low) also use it to flush loo, everything gets done on an economy wash 30 degrees, I use a box sweeper only vacuuming once a week, I have stopped buying fruit and veg out of season to save airmiles. I know it's not a lot, but I think it's important to try.

[andy-hughes]

Dave has it absolutely right, it would make a difference, but not enough of a difference to matter.

It may salve peoples' consciences to take these small steps, but even if everyone in the civilsed world did all of them, it would never negate the huge impact of major developed nations' industrial polution.

And since none of the major developed nations' populations seem remotely interested in the fundamental changes in their lifestyles that stopping marge-scale pollution would mean, it will simply cary on