Yahoo Green covers several low-cost methods of reducing your water use at home intended to save you money and save your planet. The quality of the tips vary, but the article includes a lot of tips that anyone can implement for free. For example, to minimize appliance water consumption, the article suggests:
- Fully loaded: Dishwashers and clothes washers should be operated when full for optimum water conservation. If you must wash partial loads, adjust the water levels as appropriate.
- Scrape, don't rinse: Pre-rinsing dishes before loading the dishwasher is unnecessary. Scrape off food and then trust that bad boy to do its job.
Your mileage may vary with some of the tips, but it's at least worth finding out, for example, if you can get away with scraping rather than rinsing.
Thanks Ellen!
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低成本的方法,让你轻松减少日常用水(环境)
“雅虎绿色”网站上介绍了一些节约日常生活用水的低成本的方法,让你在节省开支的同时,为保护地球环境尽一份力.这些建议的效果参差不齐,但其中有些是不需要你花任何钱就可以实现的.比如在减少家用电器耗水量方面,这篇文章建议:
装满你的电器:为了充分利用水资源,洗碗机和洗衣机最好在装满时使用. 如果你一定要一次洗小部分的衣服, 请把水位调整到合适的位置.
除去盘中食物,用刮的,不要用冲的: 在把碗放到洗碗机之前先用水冲一遍是不必要的.只要先把盘子上剩下的食物刮掉就可以了, 其他的就让洗碗机来负责吧.
这些建议对你产生的效果可能不同, 但是至少值得你尝试一下, 比如说, 你可以改变使用洗碗机前冲一遍碗的习惯,学着把碗里的食物刮掉. 谢谢你,爱伦!