How Earth friendly are you?

[- Femme -]

I notice that I don't recycle paper, cans, plastics etc. but I am pretty rabid when it comes to water. I can't stand anyone being wasteful with it.

 

I stopped taking baths long ago and I make my showers 5-10 mins. I yell at my family if they take too long with the shower or have the faucet on while brushing their teeth. I also like using the least amount of water to wash dishes. I get pretty annoyed when my brothers leave the faucet on for a full minute just to have really cold drinking water. I also hate seeing water sprinklers on lawns. I always knew that there were water shortages but I noticed this change when I saw a documentary about 5 years ago on people dying from lack of water. It was really eye opening how much we wasted water.

 

Anyway, I'm trying to care about recycling but I don't know why that's so hard. The recycle bins are literally a few feet from my house but I just head right on to the garbage. Our household also wastes a lot of food - may Allah forgive us. I sometimes try to feed the birds instead of throwing it out.

 

Other ares I'm trying to improve in:

 

• stop using plastic grocery bags and just one one of those cloth bags

• try switching the harmful cleaning chemicals and make homemade all purpose cleaners

Anyway, this rambling post, was to ask about your experiences in trying to be good to the environment.

[Baluug]

I'm not much of an environmentalist but at least I'm not leaving much of a carbon footprint because I live really close to my work so it's not far to drive, plus I'm a cheapo so I don't idle my car for very long. And I do occasionally recycle.

[Geel_jire]

not very.

I wouldnt go out of my way to recycle.

if the blue bin is placed in a convenient location I will use it otherwise i will just toss it into the trash.

 

but not wasting water is very important .. you grow up appreciating water scarcity so I dont like to waste it.

 

I was considernig buying a hybrid but a new study just came out that says the price premium on a hybrid as compared to its non-hybrid atlernative does not make up the difference in $$$ saved at the pump. so I am serously reconsidering because my motives were purely economical and had nothing to do with the environment

[Valenteenah.]

I try to recycle most things. But I'm not too good with water or energy conservation - I'm just starting to discipline myself with these.