What Is Eco-Friendly Kitchen

Kitchen is usually the least eco-friendly room in the house. Appliances eat up energy and water, and we are careless with these resources. On top of that, we use detergents and disinfectants that are full of petrochemicals and phosphates and we fill our bins with non-biodegradable waste.
Whether you are creating a new kitchen from scratch or just going for a revamp, put environmental issues at the top of your shopping list and buy appliances and products that have good eco-friendly credentials.

So before you start looking for a kitchen cabinet manufacturer or consultant, you should know that there is more then 130 kitchen cabinet manufacturers already earned KCMA seal. In order for this manufacturer to be able to receive this award they must earn at least 80 out of 105 possible points in the categories that consider formaldehyde emissions, use of recycled material, manufacturing process, environmentally stewardship and community relations.
For more information on the above eco-friendly kitchen cabinet companies, please visit www.kcma.org.

There are many ways that you can help your kitchen to be eco-friendly besides getting an eco-friendly kitchen cabinet consultant, here are some the ideas that you can try to implement yourself:

• Wood - ensure it comes from sustainable sources with certification from FSC.
• Plywood and MDF(Medium Density Fiberboard) - These material required binders and therefore they does not contain UF and with low formaldehyde.
• Finishing material – Manufacturer should only use water-base lacquer.
• Tiles – That are made of recycled aluminum, brass and glass.
• Flooring – Eco timber flooring comes from fast-growing renewable sources.
• Appliances - All their parts should be able to recycle at the end of their usefulness, energy saving, consume less water and self cleaning (so that you use less detergent).
• Cleaners – Try to avoid chemical-based kitchen cleaners.
• Lightings - Install dimmers in your kitchen so that you are able to cut down energy consumption or even better install energy saving light bulb as they usually consume less then half the energy and it has a lifespan of more then 10 times of incandescent light bulb.
• Minimize packaging. Buy food with as little packaging as possible, avoid plastic packaging and recycle as much as you can.

We should do our part to take care of our fragile environment to ensure that our grand children, great grand children are still able to enjoy it. The thing that we take for granted right now…. Trees, green grass, clean water, fresh air to breath might rare to them if we don’t take action right now.