Savings and Practical Conversion Information That Can Be Done at Home

How can you save and recycle the water you use in your home?

• You can collect the wastewater from clothes dryers and water purifiers, which we do not see because it is connected to the drain, in a bucket and use it while cleaning.
• You can collect the waste water of the washing machine in available bathrooms and use it to clean the toilets. In fact, if appropriate adjustments are made, this water can also be used in the siphon system.
• To avoid washing the dishes in running water before putting them in the machine, you can clean the coarse dirt of the dishes with a wet sponge.
• You can collect the running water in a bucket to warm it up before the shower and use it later.
• You can collect ablution and hand washing water in a basin at the sink and use it in toilets.
• If you place a liquid soap bottle filled with water on the edge of the sink, you can wet and soap your hands with a small amount of this water without turning on the tap. When you turn on the tap after lathering your hands, you use water more economically.
• You can reduce the water pressure by reducing the tap valves by half, so you will use less water.
• You can collect the dishwashing water in a basin in your kitchen sink and use it for toilet cleaning.
• You can consume less water by installing faucet armatures with an on-off system.
• You can use the water you wash vegetables and fruits in to irrigate gardens and plants.

Would you like to make the most of vegetables and fruits, meals and beverages?

• You can use tomato peels by boiling them and blending them, or by drying them in the oven and crumbling them, to add color and flavor to soups and dishes.
• You can use lemon and orange peels in cakes, pastries and puddings by drying them in the oven or grating them fresh and storing them in the freezer.
• You can make vinegar from strawberry stems. It is known that pleasantly aromatic strawberry vinegar is also good for blood pressure diseases.
• You can make jam, compote or vinegar from crushed fruits or fruit peels.
• Instead of throwing away the seeded parts of the melon, you can obtain “melon milk”, which has a very high nutritional value, by mixing it with a glass of drinking water, pureeing it completely and passing it through a strainer.
• You can make herbal tea, which has a blood-thinning effect, by drying cherry and sour cherry stems.
• You can use the remaining rice pilaf by making bayanbudu meatballs or using it in soups.
• You can make soup from the roots and stems of spinach.
• You can turn pasta and noodle water into soup and use it in meals.
• You can store leftover food, soup, and ashure in the freezer for a few months, or you can can it and consume it within a week or two.
• You can make cheese at home; You can can the remaining whey and use it instead of milk in pastries such as cakes and pastries.
• You can make curd cheese by boiling expired milk and obtain valuable whey to be used in pastries and soups.
• You can prepare cold tea by diluting the remaining tea in the teapot, sweetening it with the fruits you want.
• After soaking onion peels in water for a few hours and fermenting them, you can turn them into vitamin water for plants.
• You can dilute the coffee grounds you drink and offer them to your plants as vitamins.
• You can exfoliate your skin (body) by adding baking soda or sugar to dry grounds.
• You can prepare vitamin water for your plants using boiled egg water and crushed shells.

• You can prepare compost (natural fertilizer) with vegetable and fruit peels, residues and seeds and use it for plants at home or in the garden.
• You can obtain a natural fertilizer by combining tea pulp with soil.
• You can increase the fertility of the soil by burying olive and fruit pits in plants and pots, and contribute to increasing plant diversity by throwing them into gardens and forests.

Would you like to use stale bread?

• You can soak stale bread, knead it with ingredients such as eggs, yoghurt and flour and turn it into flatbread, bread or pizza dough.
• You can store excess or stale bread in the freezer and take it out to use when needed.
• You can bake stale bread cut into small pieces and use it in soups or prepare snacks for children.

 Would you like to get high benefits from cleaning products? 

• You can collect the remaining small pieces of soap and combine them by soaking or boiling and melting them and use them in the form of liquid soap for household cleaning.
• You can use the water after removing the materials you soaked in bleach to clean toilets and bathrooms.
• You can dry the towel napkins you used to dry clean dishes and separate them for reuse.
• You can prepare your natural descaler by mixing vinegar and dishwashing detergent; You can use it to polish your countertops, sinks and fixtures.
• If you clean your windows with shampoo and carbonated-vinegar water, they will get dirty in a longer time and the rain water will flow away on its own.

Would you like to transform your old clothes? 

• You can make hair clips from the elastic part of old socks.
• You can cut off the toes of torn socks and make sleeves.
• You can use old clothes as cleaning cloths, foot towels, or cut them into small pieces to fill pillows and cushions.

 Transformation activities you can do with your child 

• You can turn dried, shrunken, leftover crayons into candles by melting them and placing a string between them.
• You can separate your garbage into different boxes such as plastic, cardboard, glass and old fabrics and throw them into appropriate recycling containers.