Here are some more ideas on a sustainable lifestyle at home...

Here are just some other easy everyday tips on how to be more sustainable and conscious in your own home or apartment:

Be sustainable in your bathroom:

• Improving underground water levels by connecting terrace rainwater outlets to bore wells, and using this water as a source of grey water to flush your toilets.
• Using Saathi's biodegradable & compostable sanitary products
• Using shampoo, soap and conditioner bars instead of bottles.
• Replacing liquid cosmetics to solid ones to reduce plastic packaging (solid perfume, 2/3-1 products, deo, etc).
• Ensuring the implementation of the 3Rs: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
• Refills for soaps and shampoos at major retail stores should be an option across the country.
• Using blade razors instead of plastic single-use disposable ones.
  

Be sustainable in your kitchen:

• Carry your own cloth/jute bag while purchasing groceries to bring into your kitchen for a lovely meal.
• Carrying your own water bottle instead of buying plastic bottles; you always need water when it gets hot in your kitchen.
• Ensuring the implementation of the 3Rs: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
• Reusing- old clothes, plastic containers, paper , bottles, electronic components, and other plastics before discarding it.
• Using a metal straw instead of a plastic one.
• Storing and recycling  cardboard boxes 
• Segregation of garbage into different categories- such as plastic, cans, glass, compost and landfill. 

Be sustainable in your bedroom:

• Use big plastic bottles for growing small plants - a great way to make your room even more beautiful!
• Practicing slow fashion and not contributing to franchise companies.
• Avoid using single-use stationary and accessories.
• Making wall posters using old calendars.

Be sustainable in your garden:

• Reusing grey water for watering plants or the garden.
• Using strained tea leaves and cottage cheese water as fertilizers and proteins for plants.
• Installing solar panels in your garden or on your roof as an alternative energy source.
• Using biodegradable products which you can use to make compost for your garden. 
• Growing plants in used or broken glasses, utensils etc. (check out our DIY page to get some inspiration for this).

Be sustainable outside your house:

• Switching to electric cars.
• Choosing a more sustainable traveling option, for example for shorter distances choosing to walk or cycle instead of taking a car.
• Using and supporting local producers and businesses with cleaner practices, instead of big, corporate mass producing companies.
• Giving away things we don't need anymore to those who need help; such as rough sleepers (homeless people), donation banks, charities, for example to Robin Hood Army.
• Avoiding the usage of short lived plastic products.
• Lastly, don't get lost into capitalist overconsumption! - it is a major driver for living unsustainably.