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10 Best Ways to Make Your Home Greener

Stand by and watch your bills rise (Click to enlarge)Stand by and watch your bills rise

Leaving things on standby is effectively the same as leaving your car running overnight just in case you want to use it. Turn things off - that little effort will reward you well: in a year, switching your TV off when you are not watching anything will save you the same energy as it would take to make 1,442 cups of coffee (assuming your TV is on standby for 17.5 hours a day).

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  • Turn your grey water green

  • And then there was light

  • Waste not, want not

  • Boiling hot

  • Clean green

  • Make your own energy

  • Lightbulb moment

  • Stand by and watch your bills rise

  • Plug the gaps

  • Turn your white goods green and save a tonne

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