Eco Friendly Home Furniture Design Ideas

Taking a nice, relaxing shower is a favorite pastime amongst many people. Although a very pleasant experience, long showers are actually detrimental to the world water supply and should be avoided at all costs. Here are a few simple tips on how to ensure your showers do not run over the recommended time.

Be Quick, Don’t Linger
One of the most basic tips for making sure your showers are not too long is to not linger around in the shower. This includes playing in the water, standing under the falling water, or even going over your day while in the shower. By not lingering in the shower, you are sure to cut back on shower time.

Cold Showers
An extreme way of contributing to the conservation of water and energy is by taking cold showers. Hot water uses a lot of energy and hot showers cause people to stay longer in the shower, thus using more water. By showing with cold water less energy is used and it will prevent you from staying too long.

Don’t Do Everything In the Shower
Many people like to do everything at once while in the shower. Although a time-saving practice, doing too many things in the shower drags out the time you spend under the water. By simply sticking to shower activities while having the water running, you are sure to use less water.

Use a Timer
Many of us have all the intentions to take quick showers. Without knowing exactly how long you are in the shower, it is hard to tell if it has been too long or just enough time. Set a timer for yourself that will go off and warn you when your showers are taking longer than normal. If you don’t have a timer, you can also use a radio and shower the length of one or two songs.

Did you know that the average shower length is 8 minutes? By reducing that to 5 minutes, you can reduce the amount of water you use by nearly one-third, or just about 10 gallons per day. If you already take just a five minute shower, by cutting back a little by just one minute could save you up to 1,825 gallons of water each year. Taking a shorter shower, in combination with using a low-flow showerhead, can result in significant savings. This timer sticks on to your shower wall, and when all the sand has run through, your shower time is up.

Fill a half gallon container such as a plastic milk bottle. Remove any paper or plastic label on the outside of the container. Fill it at least partially with sand, or gravel. Then add water if more weight is needed. If you just fill it with water, though, the container will move around in the tank and interfere with the mechanism.

Seal it shut and place the container in the tank of the toilet. Carefully lower it into the water and replace the lid of the tank. You’re all done!

A sealed half gallon container will save half a gallon on each flush. If you, like most people with regular toilets, flush 5 times daily, with this simple process, you will save 350 gallons of water every month.

This incredible washing machine, which could save billions of liters of water each year, has been designed at the University of Leeds. It uses less than 10% of the water of regular washing machines and 30% less energy by replacing most of the water with thousands of tiny reusable plastic beads to attract and absorb dirt under humid conditions.

Xeros, who developed the technology, will start selling the washing machine to commercial customers such as hotels and dry cleaners before bringing the product household consumers.A tiny amount of water and detergent is needed to dampen the clothes, loosen stains and create the water vapour that allows the beads to work. After the cycle is finished, the beads fall through a mesh in the machine’s drum and can be re-used up to a hundred times. Xeros has signed a deal with GreenEarth Cleaning, an environmentally friendly dry-cleaning business, to sell the technology across North America.

This innovative eco-friendly shower head just attaches to your existing fitting, and its design conserves water and energy without sacrificing pressure. This efficient showerhead not only offers you a revitalizing shower, but also makes water savings of between 30 and 70%. Its patented pressure technology accelerates, energises and oxygenates the water flow, allowing you to enjoy its massaging, deep cleansing power.

Part of the Master Shower Collection from Kohler, this eco-friendly showerhead is available in polished chrome. The Eco hand shower is the first true performance shower head for the green-build market, providing LEED compliance with 20% reduction in water consumption without sacrificing shower performance, so this shower head can help a building earn Water Efficiency points in the LEED Green Building Rating System. And with three satisfying spray options: wide soft coverage, rhythmic pulse, or soft aerated, it’s a great choice for a green shower experience!