Eco-Friendly Tenants

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How Tenants can be eco friendly

1.       Smart home meters – track the energy being used in the house, help reduce cost of living in respect of the bills as well as ensuring you’re not using unnecessarily excessive energy.

2.       Recycling and using compostable/food bins – help reduce the waste going into landfill when a large amount of product/food can be reused or recycled into biofuel / fertiliser.  Staying aware and having environmentally friendly mindset will help in reducing carbon footprint.

3.       Any furniture which a tenant has with them when they move in will inevitably change over time so donating these ‘older’ appliances to charity shops etc will ensure they get reused and have a new life, instead of being sent to landfill.

4.       Don’t block radiators in the house – this will allow heat to spread around the residence more efficiently and therefore reducing the need to have heating thermostat at a higher temperature

5.       Draught proofing the house can make it increasingly more energy efficient.  Look at using draught sealer/excluder around windows and doors / old floorboards

6.       Adding insulation such as blackout curtains, rugs or mats, draught excluder on all windows and doors. These adjustments can be made to the home to conserve heat in the home without interfering with the infrastructure of the house.

7.       Taking shorter showers or using less bath water to reduce water waste.

8.       Make use of an external water barrel to collect rainwater to save money on water bills while also being eco-friendly (plants love rainwater!)

9.       Replace old light bulbs with LED lights as they use less energy which will result in cheaper bills

10.   Keep your fridge clean – clean the back coils of the fridge because if they get too dirty they use more electricity to run.

11.   Have time plugs for lights and electrical appliances for automatic turn off of electricity to that appliance – this will ensure energy is not being used when it doesn’t need to be

12.   Try starting a small vegetable patch growing tomatoes, strawberries, peppers for example. You can grow vegetables in window pots, garden containers, hanging baskets – this will  save on shopping using your home grown food, which is good for your health as well as being tastier than the supermarket produce and you’ll also be fertilising your garden helping with the biodiversity

13.   Plant flowers in your garden (or yard!) – encourage bees to pollinate and give the insects places to feed and live.