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Scientific DIY: Eco-Friendly Home Projects

10.27.16

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How to Keep Your DIY Projects Environmentally Sustainable on chemistrycachet.com

DIY projects offer a fantastic way to personalize your home and reduce waste. But did you know you can enhance these projects by understanding the underlying science? As a chemist, I’m passionate about applying scientific principles to create sustainable and effective DIY solutions.

Scientific DIY: Eco-Friendly Home Projects

 

Build Your Own Compost Bin

Composting is a controlled biological process where microorganisms, primarily bacteria and fungi, decompose organic matter. This process transforms kitchen scraps and yard waste into nutrient-rich compost, a valuable soil amendment. Building your own compost bin allows for precise control over key factors influencing microbial activity.

Maintaining an optimal C:N ratio (around 25-30:1) is essential for microbial growth. Carbon sources (brown materials like leaves) provide energy, while nitrogen sources (green materials like food scraps) provide protein.

Turn Wine Bottles into Tiki Torches

Instead of throwing empty wine bottles in the trash, remake it into a tiki torch. Transforming wine bottles into tiki torches repurposes glass waste and provides ambient lighting.

Change Up the Curtains

Curtains can be used for a lot more than keeping light out. Curtains actually improve indoor air quality and energy efficiency. By choosing the right curtains or blinds you can create a more sustainable environment inside your house. You can reclaim old curtain rods or indoors shutters. You can make your own curtains. You can even reuse an old doorknob to prop in the middle when you want to keep them open. This gives you the ability to add your own visual appeal and really enhance the room.

Grow an Indoor Herb Garden

Growing your own indoor herb garden is a great way to save you money and a trip to the store when you’re cooking. It’s also a great sustainable project to add your own style preference and decorate your house with. You can recycle tin cans, old bottles or containers you originally would have thrown out, and use them as planters for the herbs. The herbs will last you all winter, and even emit pure oxygen into your air.

Biological Processes Of Indoor Herb Gardens:

  • Photosynthesis – Plants convert carbon dioxide and light into oxygen and glucose.
  • Nutrient Uptake – Plants absorb nutrients from the soil or growing medium.
  • Proper Drainage –  essential to prevent root rot.

 

Make Your Own Cleaning Products

More than half of the ingredients for making your own cleaning products are most likely already in your pantry. To keep your house squeaky clean and environmentally friendly at the same time, avoid harsh chemicals and toxins that are put into the air from cleaning products you purchase at the store. This is a great DIY project to recycle your store bought cleaning containers, and fill it with one of many homemade cleaning product recipes. To make them prettier, you can tape construction paper around the containers, and write what kind of cleaning product you filled it with. You’ll have DIY bottles and cleaning products at your hands, to keep your house clean and green.

Repaint Your Furniture

If you’re tired of looking at your furniture and thinking of getting rid of it, save yourself money and refinish your old furniture. You can choose a paint color that’s more aesthetically pleasing and better fits the room. Choose vintage knobs to replace the ones you’ve been using. This keeps your furniture out of a landfill, and lets you get crafty by turning your furniture into a one of a kind, custom piece. Painting your furniture will revamp your house while you recycle at the same time.

Reuse Wooden Crates

Crates are phenomenal when it comes to creating storage in a stylish décor perspective. There are so many ways you can reuse crates for around your house. One option would be to re-stain the wood to give the crate a new, but vintage look. Crates can be turned into coffee tables, bookshelves, storage shelves and more. A reused crate will allow you to add creative designs around your house in simple ways.

Add a Drying Rack to Your Laundry Room

In a few easy steps, you can custom-build your own drying rack for your laundry room. This is a more extreme DIY project, but it’s worth it to lower your carbon footprint. A drying rack is so practical for hanging clothes to dry, rather than putting them on hangers and giving your closet too much moisture which can create mold. This project will save you time, money and energy. Drying your clothes is cost-efficient and the less energy your dryer has to use, the better for the environment.

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