With five basic and inexpensive ingredients (baking soda, borax, soap, washing soda, vinegar/lemon) you can create your own household cleaners. You can also personalize them with your favorite essential oils.
Check out http://www.ecocycle.org/hazwaste/recipes.cfm or google “household cleaner recipes”.
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Shopping at second-hand stores is fun, economical, and the best form of recycling.
Drinking tap instead of bottled water (filtered, if necessary) saves money, curbs the privatization of water, and keeps plastic bottles out of our landfills. Also eliminates the resources (like oil) used in making plastic bottles, and the energy spent in transporting plastic bottles filled with water.
Running your washing machine on a cold water cycle slashes your energy bills. Nearly 90% of the electricity used by a washing machine is for heating the water.