From Guest Blogger Heather Roberts: Green Spring Cleaning Tips and Tricks

After we’ve spent an entire winter at home, it is finally time to open the windows, letting the fresh spring air in. Its time to chase away the cobwebs and bring out the best of our home. The following tips will cover both cleaning and some simple organizing you can do to stick to a more green outcome of your spring cleaning:

First of all, you should get in the habit of hang drying your laundry. If you have to dry your clothes on gas or electric dryers, then you will have an increase of your carbon footprint. You should also focus on using natural laundry detergents. Installing a clothesline in your backyard will go a long way toward handling this in a more eco-friendly way. If the weather permits it, you will cut down on your energy bills, get more sunshine and overall extend the life of the clothes you’re wearing with the added bonus of a real clean breeze scent instead of that of chemicals.

You can add a bit of greenery around your home, as it will help with the air quality as well as give you a chance to enjoy their colors. You can choose a number of plants, but some of the most efficient at keeping the air clean are peace lilies, spider plants, English ivy and rubber plants. You should have a plant or two inside each room if you want to keep your home’s air quality high.

Another thing you can and should do is to downsize and declutter your wardrobe. You can donate your worn garments to charities, so they will have a worthy second life. You can take all your torn and worn out clothes and use them for cleaning rags. This will significantly lower the amount of paper towels you’re wasting and polluting the world with. You can replace mothballs with something much better while you’re at it: a single sock filled with cloves, cinnamon sticks or bay leaves.

You can also bring in some fresh spring colors by giving your home a fresh coat of paint. While this isn’t cleaning per se, it is still something very useful. You can refresh your walls and hide old stains that may have been the result of pets or kids, just look for paints with a low VOC factor, meaning ones with a smaller amount of volatile organic compounds. Such chemicals can form vapors at room temperature and cause a number of problems with allergies and worse.

You should also do whatever you can to avoid using disposable mops. While they’re very easy to use and swap out, they tend to end up in the environment and lots of them are not really biodegradable. You can swap it out for a reusable mop instead, as this can be machine-washed, hung out to dry and then reused repeatedly until it wears out. You can find reusable and washable mops in the arsenal of many companies.
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