How to be more Eco Friendly in 2020

We are beginning a new decade in 2020! Unlike most New Year’s resolutions, don’t require you to break a sweat at the gym. As 2019 has ended, it’s time to start thinking about the environment. Global warming, species extinction, higher sea temperature, a mammoth carbon footprint and scarcity of natural resources are no longer new terms in our world today. As we continue to turn a blind eye to these figures, they seem to be increasing on a geometric progression, giving us lesser remedy time than we had a few years ago.

Fortunately, many people are getting on board. The eco-friendly living movement is now spread in every home and society, so we hope to get on the right side of fate soon. If you are yet to join the green movement, we urge you to start today. This is why we collated this article to expose those small tweaks you can make to be more eco-friendly in 2020.

What is Eco-Friendly Living?

Eco-Friendly living is the practice of reducing your demand on natural resources by making sure that you replace what you use to the best of your ability. We all know that climate change, global warming, and resource depletion are real and their impact on human and animal lives can be highly destructive. It is an opportunity for people to take action for sustainable living that can help them to reduce their environmental impact by altering their lifestyle. If we take a rough estimation like using public transportation more often, becoming more eco-friendly can go a long way in reducing your environmental impact and making this planet a clean and safe place.

Here are 5 ways to be more Eco-Friendly in 2020

Grow your own Veggies & herbs: Growing your own veggies is one of the biggest ways to become sustainable. A person new to the world of food-growing can start with garden herbs. These seeds can be grown in pots with six hours of bright sunlight, and only need watered a few times a week. You don’t have to buy seed to start your own garden; you just need to buy seed pencils or plantable pens. When the seed pencil becomes too short to write or color with, just plant the pencil into some soil then watches it grow into flowers, herbs or vegetables.

Avoid single-use plastic: Over 1 million birds die every year from ingestion in plastic. And according to the National Oceanographic, over 100,000 marine mammals are killed by single-use plastic pollution annually as well. These consist of drinking bottles, food wrappers, polythene bags, plastic bottle caps, plastic sachets, plastic wrappers, plastic straws, and Styrofoam cups & plates. Not all types of single-use plastic can be recycled. It’s not your fault that you have no idea which of the seven categories of plastic should be put into the recycling bin.

Start using reusable rags instead of paper towels: One of the simplest ways to be more Eco-Friendly in 2020 is to replace paper towels with reusable cloths. Just as plastic products choke waterways, unrecyclable paper produces unnecessary waste in landfills. It’s very easy to use a paper towel to clean up a spill. But imagine the number of paper towels discarded each year, with every household on the planet. The main reason for using reusable rags is reusable cloths can do the job faster, by soaking up more liquid with less material and waste.

Avoid plastic wrapped food: You will get all the veggies & fruits in plastic nets and the plastic net cannot be recycled, whereas buying veggies comes to around some bucks and you don’t want to waste some more bucks on plastic bags – simply bring your own reusable bags to hold them and avoid wasting plastic for veggies. Most of the people use wrapped food out of convenience, but spending an extra couple of minutes making mindful decisions will rack up your eco-points.

Change up your transport: Not every distance is walkable, sometimes we need to get from one place to another in a certain amount of time, or the weather is too bad to take a walk… but there are many other modes of transport that can be explored for a more sustainable 2020.

Instead of using your car or cab to get to and from work every day, or to the city for a shopping or vacation trip, could you take a bus, the train or even cycle? Not only this will save on emissions but it also reduces the number of times you fill up your car, time wasted in traffic and so on.