31 Easy ways you can help the planet

Rebecca Wilson, passionate about recycling across South Yorkshire
Rebecca Wilson
10 Jan 2024

Let's start the year off right!

 

Here are 31 ways you can help the planet this year:

31 easy ways you can protect our planet
  1. Walk a journey instead of using the car

  2. Eat leftovers for a meal

  3. Start a compost heap (Find out how here!)

  4. Take your reusable shopping bag to the shops with you

  5. Turn off the water while you’re brushing your teeth

  6. Do a book swap with a friend or family member

  7. Reuse glass jars around the home

  8. Make vegetable stock out of your peelings

  9. Refill your water bottle

  10. Recycle around your home

  11. Avoid buying any new clothes

  12. Turn off lights when you’re not using them

  13. Refashion an old item of clothing to give it a new lease of life

  14. Have a device-free night (why not have a board game night?)

  15. Try going paperless for a day

  16. Refuse disposable straws and cutlery

  17. Put a recycling bin in the bedroom or bathroom

  18. Switch to a bamboo toothbrush

  19. Use beeswax wraps instead of Clingfilm

  20. Eat your potatoes with the skin on instead of peeling

  21. Promote recycling at school or work

  22. Switch to a shampoo bar

  23. Write a shopping list before you food shop and try your best to stick to it

  24. Make an outfit from clothes you haven’t worn in 6 months 

  25. Buy loose fruit and vegetables from your local market

  26. Upcycle something in your home

  27. Buy in bulk to reduce waste from packaging

  28. Cook a zero-waste meal (Find some ideas here)

  29. Buy something second hand rather than brand new

  30. Compost your vegetable peelings

  31. Take a pack lunch into school / work in a reusable container

 

 

 

Protecting our planet and reducing climate change is vital not only for our generation, but for future ones too.

Read more about why it is important here 

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