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You can help in the home by:
 Recycling organic
waste such as vegetable peelings on a compost heap. This
can then be used for garden compost and it creates a habitat for
slow worms and hedgehogs. You could also buy a wormery, which will
also provide liquid fertiliser for your plants.- Sorting out your rubbish and recycling items
such as paper, plastic, milk cartons, cans and glass. This will
reduce the amount of countryside needed for landfill. Visit
Recycling at
home for information on recycling in the Vale.
- Making more use of environmentally friendly and
recycled products. See
here for details of logos denoting recycled or recyclable
products.
- Buying locally produced, organic food or growing your
own. Visit the Soil
Association website for useful advice.
- Saving energy. Electricity production uses up
non-renewable energy resources which in turn contributes to global
warming, so turn lights and appliances off when they are not being
used. Figures from the Energy Saving Trust on standby power use in
the UK home are astonishing:
- Stereos on standby cost £290m and produce 1.6 million tonnes of
CO2
- VCRs and DVD cost £194m and produce 1.06 million tonnes of
CO2
- TVs on standby cost £88m and produce 480,000 tonnes of CO2
- Ensure your house is properly insulated so heat is not
being wasted.
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