Many trends are pioneered in Tinsel Town. Due to our warp-speed communication channels, these trends are spread and emulated internationally the day after they begin. Fortunately, celebrities are using this trend power to create awareness for the green movement. More and more scientific evidence suggests that our shared water supply is becoming sparse, which is now turning Hollywood’s trend-setting attentions to the most wasteful places in the home…the bathroom.
Musician Sheryl Crow and A-list actor Will Smith are taking their toilet paper usage seriously. Sheryl crow uses toilet tissue one square at a time and advices all to follow her example. Will Smith has just recently purchased a high tech toilet, which uses sprays of water to carry out the toilet paper's regular duties. Affording a high tech toilet may be out of your budget but conserving toilet paper is a good idea. Try to purchase EPA-approved toilet paper and recycled toilet paper. Every square really does count. In the United States alone we use over ten million trees just for toilet paper. Not to mention the dyes and chemicals used during the manufacturing process. These harmful chemicals leak into the Earth, caustically affecting the environment.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Jackie Chan, and Cameron Diaz are conserving water with every toilet flush. Cameron Diaz’s new motto sings, "if it's yellow leave it mellow, if it's brown flush it down." Jackie Chan has his own twist on Diaz's ethos; he flushes the toilet only once at the end of each day. Environmentally conscious trendsetter Leo spent over three thousand dollars on a low flow toilet. All these actors believe the public should follow their lead or at least be more conscious of the next toilet flush. In the US the average person flushes down the toilet twenty gallons of fresh water down the drain everyday. There is really no need for such wasteful habits. There are toilets available that significantly cut down on the amount of toilet water flushed for the same amount of money one would spend on a traditional porcelain throne. Dual flush toilets serve as an excellent solution to our excessive water consumption habit. They can reduce the amount of toilet water a family uses by four thousand gallons per year.
Jennifer Aniston has limited her showers to 3 minutes. She explains that the every two minutes of showering uses as much water as an African has for one day. The average American spends eight minutes in the shower and the average shower head produces 2 gallons per minute. This comes to wasteful sixteen gallons of fresh water for cleaning ourselves. By following Jen's lead we could all decrease the amount of time spent in the shower, saving literally tons of our world’s most precious resource.
Brad Pitt, Aniston’s former hubby has been providing millions of dollars for the reconstruction efforts in New Orleans post Katrina. Pitt and his wife Angelina Jolie, chose to dedicate so much time and effort to this cause because the funds are allocated towards building green homes complete with energy and water saving appliances and fixtures.
We may not have the money or the star power of these celebs but we can do our part to carry on their message. It only takes small steps to be eco-friendly.
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