Improve your home with eco friendly tips

Improve your home with eco friendly tips

This series of videos gives a few short and sweet eco friendly tips to improve your home life. Be sure to stay tune for all three go green videos. If you are frustrated with all those chemical-packed cleaning products out there, and want something more natural that actually works watch these videos to learn more. Adam demonstrates how to make a non-toxic household cleaner out of kitchen staples vinegar and baking soda. Also learn how cleaning the coils on the back of your fridge, could increase its efficiency and save yourself energy.

According to Big Green Switch, you can make your fridge up to 30 per cent more energy efficient by cleaning the condenser coils. If you have one of those cool fridges that's practically a kitchen cupboard then you might find this tip a little troublesome, but otherwise it really is much easier than it sounds.

As for composting if you aren't doing it right, your compost bin can get pretty disgusting. Does sludge and stink sound familiar? If so, watch our Smart Tips video on how to make a well-balanced compost bin. Rikke demonstrates how to stuff it full of equal parts 'brown' and 'green'.

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