5. Don't Use Your Toilet as a Waste Basket

How to: Toss tissues, dead insects, cigarette butts, expired pharmaceuticals, loose hair and other garbage in the trash instead of flushing it down the toilet.

Cost: None.

Average resource savings: 10,220 gallons of water per year (assuming two unnecessary flushes per day per family member)

Average monetary savings: $20 in water costs per year

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XtineM