Green Living Guide: Kitchen Products

One of the most important areas to go green is the kitchen because so much that we do in the kitchen effects our environment. How to go green takes a little imagination but is very cheap and easy to accomplish. Below you will find some everyday green kitchen products to help with an eco friendly kitchen.

Compost Bin
I feel that in order to have an eco-friendly kitchen you will need a compost bin. It is a great way to get fertile soil for your flower or vegetable gardens while helping to reduce the amount of garbage that must be taken to the landfill. It also helps if you are putting it down the disposal. It saves you future expense because it clogs the sewer pipes over time or will help to fill the septic tank if you don't have a sewer. Cleaning sewer lines or septic tanks is expensive. Compost bins are easy to make and cheap to purchase so get one for your kitchen today.

Low Flow Aerator
Another green kitchen product is low flow aerator. They are probably one of the easiest ways to go green in your kitchen. They help to reduce the flow of water so that you use 20-30% less. Most people don't realize that water is a primary resource for most electrical plants.

Rags and Aprons
Another idea to go green in the kitchen is using rags and aprons as opposed to paper towels. It's common sense why this is a good idea it saves you money and saves trees. It doesn't cost that much to purchase rags and aprons especially if you can find them at a garage sale. You also help the environment again by reusing rags purchased from another, as more rags don't necessarily need to be made which again reduces the water being used in manufacturing. Great idea rags so this weekend go to 2-3 garage sales and stock up for your eco friendly kitchen.

Compact Fluorescent Bulbs
Arizona has been experimenting with recycling compact fluorescent bulbs (CFB). CFB's are the retro fit bulbs you can buy to replace incandescent bulbs. This will enable you cut back on electricity, which again also saves on you guessed it water. These bulbs contain harmful chemicals that can effect our environment if we keep putting them into our landfill. They have small traces of mercury, which is a poison and can harm humans. Nope don't need mercury in the water supply but if we can recycle and cleanse the mercury they save us a ton of money.

Vinegar
My last green kitchen product is vinegar. This product is great for cleaning hard services like granite or glass. Vinegar is not a harmful substance to humans or the environment and is cheaper then buying a chemical mix to do that cleaning. Just mix 1/3 vinegar to 2/3 water and you have a green kitchen cleaner.

All in all you can purchase these above items (compost bin, low flow aerators, rags & aprons, CFB's and vinegar) very cheaply and help keep your green in the kitchen.

Go Green!