- Take your own lunch to work - it's difficult to find instant food not in plastic packaging
- Turn off the oven and hob 5 minutes early and let the residual heat finish the cooking
- Check ingredients for palm oil
- Boil the water you need for hot drinks
- Set up a WhatsApp group with neighbours for borrowing tools etc.
- Take broken electrical goods to a repair cafe
- Wash full loads of clothes and the dishwasher - don't overfill though or things won't get clean
- Reuse the lids from coffee and gravy granules for tins of beans and soup
- Limit showers in time and water flow
- Use plastic clips of end of broken clothes hangers for food sealing
- Cook with a pressure cooker for both a saving in energy, time and cost
- Reduce business travel with conference calls
- Use a water butt for watering the garden
- Cancel junk mail
- Check energy efficiency of electrical items before purchase
- Use a plastic filter bag in your washing machine to stop microplastics
- Use loose leaf tea instead of tea bags which mostly contain plastic
- Donate unused clothes
- Use lemon peel to clean the microwave and cooker tops
- Carry a refill bottle
- Send old bedding and towels to animal shelters
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