This is a sponsored post, all opinions are my own.
Introduced to the US market in 2009, Danze brings innovation, style and enhanced functionality to the kitchen and bathroom. Whether you’ve just purchased a new home or you’re looking to refresh what you have, we’ve gathered the top trends in get a green kitchen and bath with Danze.
Start at the Tap to Green your home
We are more environmentally conscious than ever and making small changes starting at home by simple improvements can have a big impact on our environment. Actually, some of the most important green choice we make happen right in our homes according to Kevin McJoynt at Danze, Inc. By making a few minor adjustments in our homes we can make the world a better place:
Replace older toilets (1992 or earlier) with newer, high efficiency toilets (HETs). They operate at 1.28 gallons per flush and could save 11 gallons of water per toilet per day.- Be sure to turn off the tap when brushing your teeth – it could save nearly 3,000 gallons of water a year!
- Update your bathrooms with newer WaterSense certified bathroom faucets. According to the Environmental Protection Agency WaterSense program, if every household in the U.S. installed these water-saving bathroom faucets, more than $350 million in water utility bills and more than 60 billion gallons of water annually would be saved, plus $600 million in energy costs for heating the water.
Always turn the water off between tasks. Letting your faucet run for five minutes uses about as much energy as letting a 60-watt light bulb run for 14 hours. - Make sure to wash only full loads of laundry. Using a high-efficiency washing machine is ideal, as they use about 28 gallons of water per load, versus an average machine that uses 41 gallons.
- Only run fully loaded loads of dirty dishes in the dish washer.
- Stock your fridge to the fullest! Yep, the cold food helps keep other products cold too.
- Take a shower rather than a bath. A full bath tub requires up to 70 gallons of water, while taking a five-minute shower uses 10 to 25 gallons. Want to be even more efficient? Switch your showerhead to a water-saving option.
- Fix those leaks. Most leaky faucets can waste more than 3,000 gallons of water each year.
Danze offers many stylish, affordable kitchen and bathroom fixtures that meet WaterSense standards. When going green in your kitchen or bath is this easy, why wouldn’t we do it?
