Green Star Technologies (Pty) Ltd.
Carbon in Cape Town

Helps minimise electricity usage and carbon footprints.

The ice from defrosting a fridge could be put on plants for watering. Use a Dishwasher, it will save more than half of the water used in a sink. Using a bucket to wash saves immensely of hefty water bills, especially during this dry season. Using a few coke bottles and hose pipes, you can divert your gutters to your pool or garden. Turn your geyser off only if you are away for more than a day. Re- use and recycle saves energy on recycling plants and pollutants produced from making plastics. Using the kettle for shaving saves from the geyser having to heat up small amounts of water. Separate your plastics, glass, metal (tins etc), paper (including Newspaper) from your normal garbage to be collected by your local municipality, if they have this service. Use old 2L cool drink bottles to make a lantern, cut the bottom off, wrap a coloured paper of you choice over and wedge a candle in the nozzle of the bottle to hold it up right. Have a cold shower instead of a warm one, this not only saves you on electricity but you might not want to shower as long! Use an air- conditioner with a vent, rather than a temporary vent system that does not circulate the hot air with cold air as efficiently as a built in unit. Place a bottle of ice water at the back of your fan, the fan with pull the cold air from the bottle and push it towards you. This is a wine farm cellar and warehouse, the light they had before was not enough to see exactly what you were doing. The LED lights are so bright it allows lighter surfaces to reflect that light to even further brighten your day!