Ways RV's are Green or Environmentally Friendly
- Living in an RV, you simply buy less stuff.
- Black water tanks make you conscious of your waste.
- Small hot water heaters make you take shorter showers.
- Small space is smaller to heat.
- Small space is smaller to cool.
- Smaller refrigerator/less storage = more fresh food / more fresh purchases / more local consumption.
- You can move closer to your work so you can drive less.
- Small space means small outdoor space means less 'land footprint' required.
- RV dwellers tend to be outside more (less air conditioning)
- DC voltage system lends itself well to LED lighting
- Small space with windows on both sides means it is easier to get get a breeze through.
- Built in furniture means you don't buy furniture and big things - not filling up landfills.
- Awnings are naturally part of the RV experience and they keep things cool so you use less air conditioning.
- People tend to cook outside more w/ an RV meaning that the heat from cooking doesn't require the cooling to counteract.
- RV hot water heaters are really easy to turn on/off lending themselves to simply turning off and saving energy.
- LP Gas bottles make you THINK about saving LP Gas so you don't have to fill them up so much.
Ways RV's can improve their Environmental impact
- RV's seem to use lots of plastics which I'm not so sure are great materials for the environment.
- RV's don't seem to have great insulation which I think is a problem.
- RV's seem to be subject to the sunlight and get awfully hot. There has to be a way to make them even more able to reject the sun's heating ways.
- RV's black water system may encourage too much water usage to keep clean and waste water.
- RV's black water system probably ought to be more sophisticated - too many people putting chemicals in the black water to keep clean. Maybe the gray water could be pumped into the black to re-use the gray to flush the black out?
Those were some things I was thinking about. What about you?
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