Here are some of the most interesting and practical alternative uses for coffee filters please feel free to suggest other uses in the comments below!
- Clean windows and mirrors. Coffee filters are lint-free so they don't leave behind any residue.
- Save a bottle of wine. Broke the cork? No problem. Just place a filter over a pitcher and carefully pour the wine into it.
- Line flower pots. Place a filter at the bottom of the pot to prevent soil from leaking out of the drainage hole.
- Protect china and non-stick cookware. Place a coffee filter between dishes or pans when storing or packing.
- Wipe off smudges. In a pinch, you can use to clean eyeglasses, camera lenses, televisions, and computer monitors.
- Keep your microwave clean. Prevent splatters by covering dishes or bowls in the microwave with coffee filters. Using another plate is your best bet, but filters are a good alternative to plastic wrap. And you can easily reuse them a few times.
- Make a bouquet garni. Tie up bay leaves, parsley, or other herbs in a coffee filter. Drop it in your stew or soup pot, and easily remove it when you're done cooking. Recipes often suggest cheesecloth for this process, but a coffee filter is an easy-to-find alternative.
- Diffuse the flash on your camera. Place a coffee filter over your flash to soften the brightness. You can also try putting coffee filters over lights or lamps to lessen the harshness of direct light when taking indoor photos.
- Make sachets. Tie lavender or other dried flowers and herbs in a coffee filter to make great-smelling bundles you can store in drawers and closets.
- Use for sewing projects. Coffee filters make a great backing for embroidering or appliqueing soft fabrics.
- Make tea bags. Wrap loose tea in a filter and tie with a string.
- Use for storage. Wrap Christmas ornaments and other rarely used fragile items before packing away. By Lori Bongiorno Read More from The Conscious Consumer blog
Manufacturers know that flashy packaging translates into increased sales, but Much of this packaging is unnecessary. There’s a ton of material we continue to schlep home when shopping — the cellophane, unrecyclable bags, plastic, and cardboard used in the packaging of many common items. A fantastic, and such an easy eco-friendly action for most of us to take is to carrying our own reusable shopping bags to the grocery store when we goes to shop
As consumers, there are a number of items we can use or purchase in order to reduce our consumption of excess packaging here are 15 Ways to Reduce Food Packaging:
- Bring a travel mug whenever you go to your favorite coffee shop. Many cafes will fill your mug at no additional charge, eliminating the need for those one-use styrofoam cups with plastic lids.
- Use a reusable, stainless steel drinking bottle instead of individual drink boxes or bottles.
- Buy fresh fruits and vegetables instead of produce in cans, frozen boxes and bags.
- Buy in bulk, using your own containers from home to eliminate the use of can, carton, and plastic bag packaging.
- 5. Use cloth napkins instead of paper napkins.
- Buy big boxes of cereal instead of individually packaged cereals.
- Never buy individual “snack-sized” boxes or bags.
- When washing non-bagged greens, use a salad spinner. That way you won’t have to use paper towels to blot the greens dry.
- Buy quarts of yogurt instead of eight-ounce or smaller cups.
- Use cloth or a gold coffee filter rather than paper filters.
- Buy bulk cheese instead of individually wrapped slices.
- Make your own popsicles using reusable molds, rather than buying boxed popsicles. Be sure to use BPA-free molds.
- Use metal and ceramic baking pans instead of aluminum disposable pans.
- Use loose tea instead of one-use tea bags.
- DIY, green cleaning products instead of commercial cleaning products. Care2 is a great resource for recipes for these easy to prepare recipes, from window cleaner to furniture polish.
Green Home means a home that is close to that nature, that nature designed to be brought without detriment. Natural resources have been used in the making that. So wherever you live, use the local natural resources to make your home. Like, if you are making home in Madhypradesh or rajasthan then all things that are used to build the house e.g. clay, bricks, rods, everything buy from their surroundings. By this you will not only save your money on truck fare, but it also save environment from being contaminated by saving the gasoline used in trucks to come and smoke coming out of the vehicle.
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Working in the office, often you'll feel the need to print off documents just because you can and you think you'll need them later. Copy paper, like the kind used in photocopiers, computer printers and plain-paper fax machines, is the most common type of office waste paper. We ask that you remember a few things before printing off that joke email from a colleague.
- Proofread onscreen before printing
- Copy & paste only what you need to print
- Don’t print unnecessary emails
- Reuse documents/copies if possible
Benefits of using less:
- Storage and handling. Paper is bulky to store, in boxes or in file cabinets. By using fewer sheets, you can put storage space to more productive use. For example, Owens Corning recently made all of its offices worldwide "paperless." Having had 14,000 file cabinets around the world, the company has already saved around $30 million in lease costs.
- Mailing costs. Fewer sheets mailed may mean reduced postage. A single-sided 10-page letter costs $0.63 to send by U.S. first class ; that same letter, copied onto both sides of the paper, uses only five sheets and requires only $0.39 in postage. The price of postage is rising, and those extra ounces can really add up.
- Environmental benefits. By increasing double-sided copying (duplexing), U.S. offices could reduce annual paper use by 20 percent (Inform, Inc). By using and discarding less paper, you are conserving resources, reducing water and energy use, and preventing pollution.