Household Savings Calculator | Simple Steps

Household Savings Calculator | Simple Steps

Use refurbished electronics. You can get refurbished electronics for a steal (they often sell for less than 50 percent of the retail price!), and before they're resold to the public, they go through an intense defect-testing process and the warranties usually remain intact. So you can save money and help reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills

Plastics now make up 90 percent of all floating marine debris, and most of it originates from land. For picnics, bring food and water in reusable containers and avoid plastic bags and wraps, which blow away easily in the sea breeze.

Drying one load of laundry in the dryer produces 3.35 pounds of carbon dioxide. Air dry your clothes on a line in the backyard, saving C02 and benfitting from the natural disinfectant properties of sunlight

255 million chickens provide for our nation's annual demand for eggs, and a geographic area the size of Wyoming is used to grow our wheat. Help conserve those resources by saving leftovers for another meal.

Crawling traffic can contribute eight times as much air pollution as traffic moving at regular highway speeds. Check out your local news website for traffic information and adjust your route accordingly

Drive down pollution and plan your trips in the car. You can eliminate one pound of greenhouse gas emissions by eliminating just one mile of driving.

Consider using your own coffee cup....Every year Americans drink more that 100 billion cups of coffee. Of these, 14.4 billion are served in disposable paper cups, enough to wrap the earth 55 times if placed end to end. In addition, some paper cups are lined with a plastic made from a petrochemical that would produce enough energy to heat 8,300 homes for a year!

Save paper...save resources. Change your printer setting to 2 sided printing to reduce the amount of paper you consume at home or the office.