Recyclables make a greener home
The use of recycled materials in green homes and buildings proves to be one of the most common ways to show sustainability. Aside from economic benefits, recycled or salvaged materials can add character and unique appeal. Here are some tips on how some recycled materials can be incorporated in your green home.
Wood you?
Recycled woods are as effective as finished wood but they are generally cheaper in terms of cost. Recycled woods aside from structural uses in walls and windows can seamlessly find uses in drawers, cabinets, and shelves.
Paper trail
Old newspapers should not only find its way into paper mache. In fact, they can be used as insulation. Carton egg trays an also serve this very same purpose. Hundreds of dollars can be saved from your pockets with this simple act.
Don’t come up empty
Raid your kitchen of empty wine bottles and mason jars. If you think that they can be used only as pen holders and organizers of tiny tots, you’ll be surprised that they can actually be used to build a house. (Search for the man from PEI who used 25,000 wine bottles to design structures in his house and garden.)
For centuries, empty wine bottles have found various uses in construction of homes. In the United States, you can find several homes with bottles embedded into the walls, which serve both aesthetic and structural purposes.
Sea the potential
Reimagine your bathroom by using sea-sourced materials. If you’re living near the shorelines, use natural materials like shells and pebbles of various colors, shapes, and sizes as perfect inclusions in the walls and floors of your bathroom. If you can find enough of one style or size, this one can also save you from the usual high costs of bathroom tiles in home depots.
Sustainable living is an idea which one may find very difficult to embrace and carry out, but with proper thinking and inspiration, it’s actually an endeavor that can become an easy reality. Start exercising your environment-friendly minds. And always remember that your very own household bins can very well become first-hand sources of recycled materials you can actually use to realize a green home.
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