Our Environment should be one of the most important places we should keep neat because the moment it's clean we will be free from all forms of sickness. Also i always like quoting this saying which goes this way "ONCE OUR ENVIRONMENT IS CLEAN, OUR UNIVERSE BECOMES CLEAN". Keeping our surroundings clean will only help in the betterment of society.
Every household generates waste or garbage. Now, waste or garbage should not be thrown anywhere, and everywhere, but only in trash bins. Throwing garbage all over the place will only dirty our surroundings and pollute the environment. Controlling the use of plastic bags will also help to keep our surroundings clean. One should use recycled and eco-friendly products such as paper or jute bags instead of plastic bags. Throwing of plastic bags by the roadside only makes our surroundings dirty and unhygienic. Plastic bags are not soluble so they clog drains and cause water logging.
Do not litter on the road or in your neighbourhood. Littering causes land, air and water pollution. Try planting trees and plants that will beautify our surroundings as well as keep us healthy. Greener surroundings look beautiful and also reduce pollution to keep us fit and healthy. Dirtying our surroundings will only cause harm to us. So, keep the surroundings clean and live happy and healthy lives.
10 Practical ways to keep our environment clean
1. Reduce the usage of your electrical appliances
This serves as the best means to conserve the energy. You can buy appliances that are not only environment friendly but energy efficient too. One of the best ways to conserve electricity is by switching off all the lights and appliances when not in use. You can wash your clothes in a washing machine using both warm and cold water instead of using hot water. Try solar power for heating water instead of an electrical appliance.
2. Drive your car less
You can drive your car less and acquire other means of transportation instead. Many countries recommend repairing of leaking air condition of your car that adversely destroys the upper layer of ozone atmosphere. You must also be careful while filling your car with gas and see that it doesnât spills off the tank. You can also use motor oil that is energy-efficient.
3.Reduce the usage of your wooden stove
Wood stove tend to generate excess smoke into the air which is harmful for the health of your entire family. Instead you can cook food on energy efficient appliances that promises low cost and quick cooking too.
4.Maintain a healthy eco system
It is the need of an eco system to have good interaction with green plants, organisms and animals in a healthy environment. These three helps to keep the entire eco system healthy and alive for many years together. It is due to excessive air pollution and global warming that the entire eco system is negatively affected today. With a little change in your daily lifestyle, you can definitely help to protect the entire planet with its ecosystem is a healthier way.
5.Reduce usage of chemicals and pesticides
It is always advisable to eliminate maximum household chemicals and pesticides that directly pollute the green environment. Instead you can make your own solutions for cleaning purpose using distilled vinegar, lemon and baking soda. There are many ‘green’ cleaning products available in the market which is environmentally friendly and conventional cleaners too.
Many waste products like glass, plastics, aluminum and paper can be recycled instead of been disposed off in the dustbin. This will prevent any air pollution accumulated on burning these products. You can also use reusable towels and reusable bags rather than using disposable plastics or bags.
7. Reduce carbon footprints
There are many ways to cut back carbon footprints causing excess air pollution. You can lower the temperature of your water heater, wash dishes manually instead of using a dishwasher, reduce the use of air conditioner or heater and buy energy efficient lights to lower the energy consumption and heat generation level.
8. Grow your food locally
Planting of the food locally helps in reducing the overall commercial transportation of food items that require pesticides and preservatives to preserve them. These preservatives directly pollute the air. It is also a proven facts that organic food is more sustainable that the one which is preserved using harmful pesticides and chemicals, thereby casing harm to the entire global ecosystem.
9. Reduce contaminants
It is always a better option to reduce the usage of contaminants and toxic materials at home. A healthy environment begins from your home. You must also take care to dispose off all the waste material in a proper way rather can simply disposing them off in the bins.
10. Avoid the pollution
Try not to throw away trash or waste materials almost anywhere in and around your house. You must try to dispose off biodegradable as well as non-biodegradable wastes in a proper way and avoid littering it all over your home environment. Any excess air or water pollution can negatively affect you and your familyâs health while destroying the entire environment globally.
Other ideas to consider
Air pollution creates an adverse effect on the overall global environment. More the number of vehicles and industries, the more is the contamination in the environment. Sometimes people even find it difficult to breath easily in a polluted air. Air pollution is caused in excess due to many large businesses that have their focus on making money rather than maintaining a clean, green and healthy environment. The smoke emitted from these industries and factories are carried to miles and ultimately generate dirty and unhealthy pollution.
As a citizen, you can play the right role to control maximum pollution by following a few of easy steps that starts from your home. You can discover different ways to keep the environment clean, green and healthy.
That quote you mentioned about the universe becoming clean really stuck with me. When buying fresh produce from the local Afro-Caribbean shops, I always think about how waste and rubbish disposal around food stalls directly affects health. Cleaning the immediate surroundings really is step one to preventing sickness before food even gets to the kitchen.
You are so right oo, Emily. In our local markets here, if the stall keeper does not sweep around her fresh produce early in the morning, people will just pass by without buying. Hygiene starts right at the market stall paa, chale, long before the food even reaches the cooking pot.
You spoke well my brother. People forget that healthy eating starts from the drainage and surroundings long before food hits the cooking pot. Back home my mother would never buy vegetables from any trader whose stall had dirty water or flies around, e no matter how cheap the food was sha. If the market environment is filthy, sickness is just waiting.
Herh, Emeka, you have spoken truth oo. Even here in Tamale, if the gutters near the grain seller are dirty, my grandmother will make us walk all the way to the other end of Aboabo market. Dirt easily enters the millet before you even bring it home to grind, chale. Cleanliness starts from the buying side paa.
Cleanliness really is the foundation of health. I was wondering though, in open-air markets where folks buy fresh produce and raw meat, what are the most common methods used to manage waste and keep flies away? That connection between a clean environment and staying free from sickness is so crucial when handling fresh food.
Megan, you have raised a very important point. In open-air markets back home, traders usually cover raw meat with light netting and use manual fly whisks made from palm fronds to keep flies away constantly. Sweeping and clearing waste happens throughout the day, because keeping those stalls clean is no be small thing. Now living in Birmingham, buying fresh meat in indoor markets feels quite different, but proper market hygiene is crucial everywhere o.
That quote ONCE OUR ENVIRONMENT IS CLEAN, OUR UNIVERSE BECOMES CLEAN is pure truth o. Especially when processing fresh fish or snail at home, if you dont clear the waste immediately the flies will invite sickness into the house. Sanitation and healthy eating go hand in hand.
Chale, you speak absolute truth oo. That snail slime alone, if you don't clean it fast, herh! The smell will call all the flies in Kumasi to your kitchen. My grandmother always insists we use wood ash and fresh lime to wash the bowl and floor immediately after dressing the snails. If you delay small like this, the house will not be sweet at all paa.