{"id":692,"date":"2018-11-03T19:50:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T19:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/?p=692"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:41:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:41:30","slug":"eco-home-be-stuff-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/2018\/11\/03\/eco-home-be-stuff-wise\/","title":{"rendered":"Eco Home: be &#8216;Stuff&#8217; Wise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h4>1. Sell your unwanted stuff!<\/h4>\n<p>While buying secondhand is a great way to save money, selling your old stuff will actually make money. Car boot sales, selling sites and table top sales \u201creduce, reuse, and recycle\u201d \u2014 meaning there\u2019s no energy wasted on producing new stuff\u2014and they can only result in more space at home and more money in your wallet.<\/p>\n<h4>2. Buy pre-loved everything<\/h4>\n<p>Since reducing our consumerism might be the number one way to improve our eco footprint, and since secondhand stuff is cheap, there\u2019s every reason in the world to buy what\u2019s been used.<\/p>\n<h4>3. Take the junk out of your trunk<\/h4>\n<p>A lighter car uses less fuel and saves more money, so remove the roof rack and empty out that boot! (But maybe keep the spare tire.)<\/p>\n<h4>4. Make your own cleaning supplies<\/h4>\n<p>Household cleaning supplies are jam-packed with the most powerful bacteria killers in existence, expertly engineered to completely annihilate just about every organism they come into contact with. Unsurprisingly, these man-made poisons aren\u2019t great for the natural world, and many have toxic effects on animal and plant life once they enter our waterways via sewer systems.<\/p>\n<h4>5. Borrow, don\u2019t buy<\/h4>\n<p>Before any big purchase, think: How often will I really use this ladder\/leaf blower\/wheelbarrow? If the answer is \u201cnot a lot,\u201d it\u2019s so easy to borrow stuff.<\/p>\n<h4>6. Go paperless<\/h4>\n<p>Switching to paperless billing lowers the odds of losing bills in the post. Many billers offer a discount for going paperless because it saves them money on stamps and printing\u2014it also cuts down on paper, which cuts down on tree deaths (and don\u2019t you know that trees are hugely helpful in combating climate change?). If your biller doesn\u2019t offer a paperless option, petition them to do so!<\/p>\n<h4>7. Swap your wardrobe for someone else\u2019s<\/h4>\n<p>It\u2019s not hard to find someone who\u2019s willing to swap his or her clothes for yours. This\u2019ll save you the cost of new clothes, reduce two people\u2019s waste, and lower carbon footprints all around\u2014the production and transportation of even a single cotton t-shirt generates several kilograms of greenhouse gases that could be avoided with second-hand shopping.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-sustainability","category-environmental-sustainability"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13723,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/13723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}