Sustainability at Home

There are many small ways to adjust your home to be more sustainable. 

• Be water wise

  • Reduce your water usage

  • Take shorter showers

  • Fix leaky faucets 

  • Get a rain barrel

• Grow a garden

  • Register for the library’s monthly garden series

  • Borrow seeds from our Seed Library

• Make your own Cleaning Products 

  • 150 everyday organic cleaning products you can make yourself

• Adopt a sustainable diet

  • Plant-based cooking

  • Meatless Monday    

• Reduce your plastic use

  • Check packaging

  • Most recycling programs only recycle #1 (PET) and #2 (HDPE) 

  • Avoid Plastics - #3-7

    • They end up in landfills or are incinerated

• Reuse, Reduce & Recycle wisely

  • No dirty pizza boxes

  • No broken glass

  • Always rinse cans and containers  

• Donate your gentle used clothing