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Reducing Home Toxins (Without Spending $$)

Reducing Home Toxins (Without Spending $$)

Too often, conversations about reducing home toxins center themselves around replacement: Get rid of your mattress and buy a new one. Toss your plastic Tupperware and replace with glass. And that plastic shower curtain liner? It has got to go.

But replacing items that are in otherwise fine working order wastes money; it wastes environmental resources, too.

Today I’m speaking with environmental engineer (and podcast host!) Emma Rohmann. Emma offers her practical and impartial voice to the low-tox conversation by outlining you can create a safer home without spending a single cent.

Here’s a preview:

[9:30] Reducing home toxins: The Number One place to focus on for greatest impact

[17:00] Maintaining your home’s systems as a means of improving indoor air quality

[21:15] Practical thoughts re: your existing Teflon pans

[26:00] Plastic in the kitchen: Why you don’t necessarily have to trash and replace

 

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Too often, conservations about reducing home toxins center themselves around replacement: Get rid of your mattress and buy a new one. Toss your plastic Tupperware and replace with glass. But replacing items that are in otherwise fine working order wastes money; it wastes environmental resources, too. On this episode of the Sustainable Minimalists podcast: environmental engineer Emma Rohmann offers her practical and impartial voice to the low-tox conversation by arguing that you can create a safer home without spending a single cent.

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