You’re probably wondering why it is so important to clean in a more green and eco-friendly way. How does it benefit you in any way? Here are some main reasons why you should consider going green.

Why become Green and Eco-Friendly?

Being eco-friendly is good for the environment you live in

There are multiple reasons to go green. The first and most generic answer is that it protects the environment from all the chemicals from traditional cleaning products. This may sound like you are sacrificing for the good of something else, but this is not the case. You are helping yourself more than anything. Moreover, read down below to see why.

Being eco-friendly is good for your health

The chemicals that leak into the environment not only affect the environment itself but also affect you and your family. Of the chemicals leaking out of the cleaning products, at least five kinds of them are toxic and can contribute to health problems. These chemicals include ammonia, phosphates, acids, bleach, and artificial colouring. Therefore, these can cause rashes, headaches, coughing, and cause other kinds of harm to the skin and lungs.

Being eco-friendly saves money

Nowadays, the green cleaning options now match the non-green products’ prices. In some cases, they are even cheaper. In the past, many people were discouraged from buying green products due to the high prices, but now that has changed, customers like you may save money by purchasing green products and choosing eco-friendly alternatives.

Simple

It is effortless to go green. For example, it involves lots of time buying single-use items, so you are saved from the hassle of travelling back and forth to the store to buy more cleaning products. Moreover, in other cases, it can involve you making your own cleaning products with baking soda and vinegar, saving you or a maid a hassling trip overall and saving you lots of time.

How to be more green and eco-friendly while cleaning

Stay away from chemicals

Like what was said above, the chemicals from traditional cleaning products harm you, your family, and the environment around you. Buying products from companies that use natural components will help with this. 

Less paper, and switch to cloths

 The world uses lots of paper towels. It takes about 17 trees and 20,000 gallons of water to produce one ton of paper towels. In the United States alone, about 3,000 tons of paper towels are used daily. This amounts to 51,000 trees and 60,000,000 gallons of water being used daily to replace the paper towels that are currently being discarded. All countries must cut down on their usage of paper towels. To help fight this and to help save you time and money, you can switch to cloth rags. You can use these multiple times, and they are much more effective.

No single-use items

Like cloth rags, using reusable items is a crucial way to make cleaning more green and eco-friendly. This includes using reusable mops, dustpans and brooms. You can use these for years instead of single-use ones, which last about a day. This can also apply to reusable scrubbers instead of the metal ones that eventually wear down. Therefore, this will save you lots of time and money while simultaneously saving the environment.

Less waste is more green and eco friendly

As stated above, buying products that cause less waste will save you lots of money and time and inflict less environmental damage—also, having items that come in less packaging and generate less waste can reduce environmental damage.

Use natural green and eco-friendly material

Sometimes you don’t even have to buy green cleaning products. You can make your own with easy-to-find ingredients that most people already have in their kitchen. This includes vinegar and baking soda, which help remove stains, and olive oil, which helps polish furniture.

Replace air fresheners

Air fresheners are extremely bad for the air. On top of this, they contribute to multiple kinds of cancer and reproductive health problems. Some good alternatives to keeping the air clean are opening the oven, opening a window, and having a houseplant. These all help keep the air fresh around you. Having a houseplant is especially a popular alternative. A houseplant not only is a good decoration for your house, but it is more friendly to possible pets you may have and more healthy for you and your family.

In conclusion, changing to green and eco-friendly alternatives is a great way to save money and time while simultaneously making a healthy environment for yourself and protecting yourself and others from multiple health problems. You can do this by buying single-use items and items with ingredients that don’t kill the environment and using natural methods.