Spare your boiler - energy saving

Simple energy-saving measures can cut emissions and your bills - such as wearing a sweater in winter so that you don't have heat the house quite so much, or draught-proofing.

Advice about energy-saving measures is available from:

• Government websites Find ways to save energy in your home and Clean Energy Homepage 

• The Energy Saving Trust

• Ealing Council

You can learn about energy efficient appliances & lighting, installing insulation, solar panels, heat pumps, and more.

Less Stuff

A large part of the CO2 emissions heating the planet are generated during the manufacture of products - so called 'embedded carbon'. Moderating our consumption by making things last, repairing/mending rather than discarding, buying second-hand, etc., are ways to reduce these emissions as well as other sorts of environmental damage such as pollution and pressure on resources.

If your interested in learning to repair clothes, look out for Ealing Repair café.

Plastics and recycling

Some types of plastic are not accepted in the Ealing Council's domestic recycling collection (blue bins), such as plastic bags. However some shops offer a recycling service for these 'soft plastics', e.g. Some Co-op and Morrisons stores. Better still is to try to avoid excessive plastic wrapping and single-use plastics when shopping.