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Wang Y, Qian H. Phthalates and Their Impacts on Human Health. Healthcare (Basel), vol. 9, no. 5, 2021, pp. 603. doi:10.3390/healthcare9050603 If you don’t feel like researching ingredient lists, don’t worry, all the information you need has already been compiled. Utilize the EWG database or the Healthy Living app to make informed choices when purchasing green cleaning products. Other resources include Made Safe, a program of the nonprofit Nontoxic Certified. The Environmental Protection Agency’s Safer Choice program federally certifies products that use safe ingredients. Their information is shared in an online database. If your product-in-question is on one or more of these lists, you can use it with confidence.
Of course, due to fossil fuels being a finite resource, it makes sense that the future is renewable and so it is expected that renewable sources will continue to increase in number, driving down the cost too. How Can Clean Energy Reduce Global Warming?
It was a filthy washing machine that prompted Nancy Birtwhistle to embrace the power of eco-friendly cleaning. “I was nearly at the point where I thought I needed a new washing machine, because it was a disgrace,” she says. “And that’s the sort of culture we’ve become: ‘I’ll replace it.’” Instead, she gave it a thorough clean and switched to homemade detergent. She says her machine no longer gets gunked up from chemical overload.
Citric acid will dissolve limescale and kill germs. Photograph: kali9/Getty Images Deep-clean the loo This type of green power uses thermal energy that has been stored just under the earth’s crust. While this resource requires drilling to access, thereby calling the environmental impact into question, it is a huge resource once tapped into. Geothermal energy has been used for bathing in hot springs for thousands of years and this same resource can be used for steam to turn turbines and generate electricity. The energy stored under the United States alone is enough to produce 10 times as much electricity as coal currently can. While some nations, such as Iceland, have easy-to-access geothermal resources, it is a resource that is reliant on location for ease of use, and to be fully ‘green’ the drilling procedures need to be closely monitored.Last summer, Birtwhistle had two different sprays to keep bugs at bay. She made one from nettles (60g boiled in 600ml water) and another using rhubarb leaves (500g of leaves in a litre of water). Both also contained clove bud oil, thought to deter insects. “The oxalic acid in rhubarb is a mild poison, so I didn’t use that on my veg,” she says. “I used the nettle spray there and I used the rhubarb spray on non-edible plants.” Both were effective, she says. “I was delighted.” Other industrial benefits of a clean energy mix is the creation of jobs to develop, manufacture and install the clean energy resources of the future. How Can Clean Energy Be Used? Birtwhistle says citric acid will “dissolve limescale and kill germs. When you move away from bleach, you find all these stains appearing, because all you’ve been doing is bleaching them out, but the limescale is still there. Use citric acid to get rid of that.” She makes her own loo cleaner using 200g citric acid and 150ml water, emulsified with a squirt of eco-friendly washing-up liquid. “The only downside is you need to rinse your nozzle afterwards. Otherwise, it does crystallise there.” Restore shower screens
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