Sunday, July 3, 2011

6. Weekly Go Green Tips 3 in 1 ( 04/July/2011 ~ 10/July/2011 ) ~ About Fridge / Travelling

Tips 16 :  
Avoid frequent business flights when you can simply stage an online video conference. Flights account for 4% of world's CO2 emissions while online video conferences are almost harmless to the environment. Besides, you will save thousands of pounds every time you do an online conference.

Choose a place to live that reduces the need to drive or easy access to public transit system, easy biking routes, close to work and stores, within walk able community, etc.  If drive is unavoidable, plan your journey well ahead. Get lost in journey means driving extra distance and consuming extra fuel.  Every gallon of gasoline you save avoids 20 pounds of CO2 emissions.          

Tips 17 :
For a fringe with a transparent or visible door, view and decide first what thing you are going to take out before opening the door. Avoid from wasting the time in selecting the food/beverage while the fringe door is keep opening. Leaving the fridge door open or frequently opening and closing it will cause the temperature inside to rise, as warm air is being drawn in all the time. This will affect the fringe efficiency to work harder and use up more energy and increased the electricity consumption to lower the temperature back down to its initial reading.

For fridge with non-visible doors, you should learn to organize the contents of your fridge properly so that you know where everything is. This means that when you open the refrigerator door to remove an item, you can go exactly to that place, grab the product and immediately close the door, thus saving time, electricity and money. Attach a paper list of fridge content category on its doors’ external surface is a good idea you can practice. Beside, also try to load your fridge / freezer as quickly as possible to avoid heat exchange with the room.

Tips 18 :
Don't directly place hot and warm item in a fridge. Hot items will raise the interior temperature of the fridge especially if it involves a big amount of storing. The raise of the temperature exposed the storing items at risk of bacteria growth and fridge also has to consume more energy to further cool down the interior temperature to the initial level. The time taken for the fridge to resume to initial temperature level is subject to the how strong the motor of fridge and food volume are. For huge amount of storing items, divide the foods into smaller, individual portions for faster cooling.

It is advisable that cooked foods that need refrigeration should be placed in the refrigerator within 1 hour or so after eating. The longer cooked food is left out at room temperature, “the greater the chance of bacteria multiplying and growing. So, if the food is still hot (like steamboat food), be let the food cool down to the room temperature first within 1 hour before placing it in the fridge. Do covering your foods before place in fridge to avoid the foods odor from cross-contaminated each other. Covered food cools more slowly, so cover it loosely until it chills a bit, then seal it. Place any cooked foods and leftover dishes above raw meat, poultry or seafood.

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