The kitchen is the best place to start when trying to reduce the harmful effects to the environment a home is causing, experts have claimed.Hippy Shopper, a guide to ethical consumerism, has suggested that the key to cutting carbon emissions is to do so in the kitchen.This is because recycling activity, cleaning and other activities that can benefit from green initiatives take place in this room.Abi Silvester of Hippy Shopper said If youre wanting to reduce carbon emissions at home, the kitchen is a good place to start as its the room with the most things that heat up and burn their way through the most electricity and gas.Its also where most of our cleaning products live and is the best place to handle recycling, so this post is all about how you can do that in style.In addition, kitchen taps can be turned off when not in use, which will help the environment by saving water.