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Monthly eco 'hot tips'
Each month we will release a new eco hot tip of practical things we can all do to reduce our impact on the environment.
July 2024
Home Composting
June 2024
Reduce your heat risk
Plant more greenery around your house. Shrubs and trees have a great cooling effect. Grow a mini meadow. This means mowing less often over the summer. Grow plants up walls. Climbers such as roses, ivy, clemantis, jasmine and honeysuckle are great for wildlife and for cooling down external walls. Maximise the ventilation and shading around your home as much as possible during the summer.May 2024
Recycle and reuse
Production of household waste needs to decrease by 33% by 2037 to reach emissions targets.
Top tips to reduce your waste from The Wildlife Trusts:
- Tins – tins from food can be washed and refashioned into lovely plant or candle holders.
- Jars – glass jars can be used to store everything from food, cotton buds, pens and plants.
- Plastic bottles – these have endless uses! Cut them open to protect your plants from slugs in the garden, create a bird feeder or get crafty with the kids and make bottle animals!
- Mend – Sew on a button, mend a hole or refashion a garment. Visit a local repair café. Fix your electrical appliance rather than replace it.
- Upcycle – Recover your soft furnishings and sand down and repolish tables and cabinets.
April 2024
Change your energy use
Energy used in buildings accounts for around 17% of total emissions.
Top tips for reducing your home emissions from The Wildlife Trusts:
- Turn off lights when you don’t need them
- Invest in low energy light bulbs
- Turn appliances off at the mains
- Wash clothes at a lower temperature
- Switch to double glazing
- Only fill the kettle with the water you need
- Turn appliances off standby mode
March 2024
Reduce your flood risk
Across the UK 1.9 million people currently live in areas of significant flooding.
Top tips to reduce your flood risk from The Wildlife Trusts:
- Replace hard surfaces with grass and plants.
- Be diverse in your planting. Some plants love wet conditions in the summer while others soak up water in the winter.
- Create an eco-friendly driveway. Do some research into permeable paving or laying down grids on top of a grassy drive to prevent it getting muddy.
- Opt for a hedge, not a fence.
- Find out if you are in an at-risk area and sign up to flood warnings in your area.
February 2024
Change how you travel
Transport currently accounts for 27% of UK emissions.
Top tips from The Wildlife Trusts
January 2024
Change what you eat
If all our food came from within 20km of where we live, we could save £1.2 billion every year in environmental and congestion costs. And that’s just from food shopping.
December 2023
Green Christmas
Christmas can be a time of excess and impacts the environment too. With a bit of thought and effort you can have just as much festive fun, but in an eco-friendlier way.
WWF tips for a sustainable Christmas
November 2023
Garden for wildlife
Let your garden go wild
Get composting
Put up a nest box
Get ready to welcome winter migrants
Help a hedgehog
October 2023
Plant a tree for 23
Trees help fight climate change, support biodiversity and are great for our health and wellbeing.
Can you plant a tree in your garden? Macclesfield Community Tree Nursery has trees available for free and can offer planting advice such as what is the best tree to suit your garden. Contact [email protected] or call 07780002686