Keep your fridge/freezer full to cut energy usage
When the food and drink begins to run low, fill the space with newspaper-filled carrier bags.
Your fridge/freezer is one of the busiest energy users in your kitchen, running at full capacity 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. And the emptier your fridge or freezer is, the harder it has to work to keep everything inside nice and cold.
Keeping your fridge or freezer as full as possible reduces the amount of energy used by your appliance. While we’d love to have them packed with delicious foods and drinks all the time, it’s far more cost-effective (and better for the waistline!) to fill empty space in your appliances with carrier bags filled with newspaper.
Alternatively, fill the fridge up with plastic bottles filled with water.
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