Cleaning your house doesn’t have to mean dirtying the planet. Use products made from safe, non-toxic ingredients that don’t harm the environment. Conventional cleaners include harmful ingredients like formaldehyde, chloroform, and 1,4-dioxane that end up in the air and water. If you mix up your own cleaners, you also skip one-use, disposable packaging that’s used in many products.

All the bottled water we chug in the name of clean water is strangling the planet with plastic. People, we don’t need it. Most city water supplies have safe, fresh water. If you don’t like tap water’s taste, get a home filtration system, even if it’s just a water-filtering pitcher you keep in the fridge. If you like the convenience of bottled water, get a refillable one and keep it with you at all times.

It’s good you keep those leftovers instead of adding them to the 161 billion pounds of food Americans send to landfills. Store that food in glass containers instead of those plastic ones. You’re won’t be completely plastic-free, because most glass containers on the market have plastic lids, but you’ll use a lot less of it. If you want to be totally plastic-less, IKEA makes a line of glass containers with bamboo lids. Or look for vintage Depression-Era containers with glass lids (and fabulous Art Deco style.)

Fast fashion — the trendy, dirt-cheap duds that fill the racks at low-cost clothing chains — is good for your budget but bad for the planet. Instead of buying the latest style for a song and tossing it at the end of the season, invest in high-quality pieces in classic styles that will last for years. And shop at charity, consignment and vintage shops for used clothes.

Letting sunshine and breezes dry your clothes is peak green living. That fresh air makes your clothes smell great! And air-drying your clothes cuts your household’s carbon footprint by 10 percent.

LED bulbs use up to 80 percent less electricity than traditional bulbs. This means power plants that belch greenhouse gases don’t have to run as much to keep the lights on when they’ve got LED bulbs in them. Another benefit to LEDs: They last an average of 14 times longer, meaning fewer dead bulbs end up in landfills.

Stop buying disposable razors and disposable razor cartridges. Buy a safety razor. That’s what you call a metal one that uses all-metal replacement blades. You’ll get a better shave and stop sending dead plastic razors to landfills. Safety razors are a lovely example of retro industrial design, so your shave will be like time-traveling to the 1930s. Women, you can use these, too.