Babysteps to Zero waste home

Dear Planeteers, 

I am very proud that whatever I learned at my childhood from grandparents is helping me to contribute to the better environment. I learned how to grow food at home from my grandparents, also reuse and make my choices careful about purchases. 

Today I am going to share some of the tips which I used to reduce my impact ton environment.

• Buying locally made bar SOAP (for bath), this will not have any plastic or paper cover to it, and also made with natural ingredients.
• Using Coconut Oil for hair and body as conditioner/moisturizer, this step can help reduce your plastic waste and also having less amount of clutter around you. There are other options as well, in my childhood my grandparent used butter as a moisturizer for me for few years.
• Using metallic RAZOR in which will be changing the blades (which don't have any plastic) and used blades can be recycled. 
• Growing simple food items at home, such as Tomato, Cholli, Basil, Mint, CurryLeaf, EggPlant, etc.
• Air dry clothes (i do this only on weekends). 
• Using cloth based napkins in the kitchen instead of paper wipes, I was able to reduce the trash. 
• Keeping windows open at evenings to cool down the home (will help you so to save some cooling cost). 

I switched some of my habits recently to reduce waste at home, look at the picture below which shows products I use part of my daily routine. 

You might be thinking what kind of impact on environment only a small change, imaging I am avoiding a lot of plastic which might be going into landfill or my use lot of natural resources for recycling. Imagin those empty plastic body-wash containers, or Toothbrush or plastic razor blades, how many times you put them in recycling bins? Anything to reduce our waste can create a tremendous impact on the environment.