10th April 2024 Bulletin

Pesach Cleaning
There has been a lot in the press lately about water and whether our rivers or seas are clean enough for us to swim in.  Is this all the fault of the water companies discharging too much waste water?  Quite rightly, pressure is being put on water companies to clean up their act, but there is also much we can do ourselves to minimise the chemicals that go into our waste water.
 
Approaching Pesach is a time when we are inspired to clean our houses from top to bottom, and a good time to think about what we use to clean ourselves, our clothes and our houses.
 
One of the simplest changes is to use an ecological laundry liquid instead of a standard detergent to do our weekly wash or, better still, laundry leaves which do the job just as effectively.  (See article from The Independent.)  These also mean that you do not have to include heavy boxes of powder in your weekly shop.
 
Personal care, toiletry and cleaning products can also be harmful to the environment as they can include quite a mix of non-bio-degradable chemicals. There is a wide range of eco-friendly shower gels, shampoos, and surface cleaners, which are easy to source, so look carefully next time you do your weekly cleaning shop.
 
All of this helps to reduce the pollution in our rivers and seas, and may even give us extra points in our Eco-Judaism audit.