One of the ways you can make your eco house as environmentally friendly as possible is to decorate it using natural eco materials. Whether it's the kind of glass, paint or wood varnish you use, there are loads of eco materials you can use for smartening up your eco home and taking care of the environment at the same time.
Eco materials contain natural, rather than synthetic, substances, so they can be cropped time after time again. And because they're also biodegradable they can be easily disposed of, rather than pollute the earth after getting dumped in a dump site.
Eco Glass
Eco glass typically comprises of 95% recycled glass and plastic, and can be used as a hard wearing surface for kitchen worktops. Eco glass worktops are available in a variety of finishes to resemble marble, quartz or granite, and match traditional glass for practicality and style.
Eco Fabrics
Natural eco fabrics are the ecological alternative option to manmade material because they're made from replenish-able plant fibres. The two most well-liked eco fabrics are cotton and jute ( also called hessian ), and other types include hemp, recycled polyester, organic leather, wool, felt and fair trade silks.
Eco Fabric can be used for armchair coverings, carpets, curtains and rugs in your eco home.
These chemicals are destructive to the environment and people's's health. Actually, conventional paint is blamed for causing asthma, chest beefs and sick building syndrome. Eco paints, on the other hand, contain fewer or no toxins at all, in which case they're labelled as being VOC free. Eco paints are odourless and popular types are milk, plant, water or soy based, rather than lead.
If anybody in your family suffers from asthma or other breathing issues then you must consider changing to using eco paint to brighten your eco home.
Eco polish
Conventional synthetic polishes contain acrylic, vinyl and algid, which are environmentally damaging to manufacture and dump.
Eco polishes are thus more environmentally friendly to produce as the resin can be harvested over and over again, making them the green friendly eco material for defending wooden surfaces in your eco home.
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Tuesday, 6 October 2009
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