Environmental Facts
- Over 300 plant species in the UK face extinction.
- Internationally, 1 in 6 species of mammal face extinction.
- Batteries produce 50 times less energy than it takes to make
them!
- In the UK, 20 million tonnes of food is imported, and 12
million tonnes exported, every year.
- On average every person in the UK throws away their own body
weight in rubbish every three months.
- In 1990 less than 10% of children walked to school.
- On average, each UK resident uses 6,500 buckets (55,000 litres)
of water every year.
- A dripping tap can waste 13 litres of water a day.
- Taking a shower instead of a bath saves up to 25 litres of
water. But power showers can use even more water than a bath.
- Inflating your vehicle tyres to the correct pressure can save
you up to 5% on your fuel bill.
- Nearly a third of all car mileage is clocked up by people
driving to work or during their work.
- Public transport uses, on average, less than half as much fuel
per passenger mile than a private car.
- Turning your thermostat down by just 1oC can cut 10%
off your fuel bill.
- Replacing one normal 100 watt lightbulb with an energy-saving
one can save up to £10 a year, or £50 over the bulb's lifetime
(energy saving light bulbs last up to ten times as long as ordinary
ones).
- Within the UK, food travels 50% further around the country than
it did 15 years ago.
- The ten warmest years in the last 130 have all occurred since
1978.
- It takes around 450 years for a plastic bottle to degrade.
- Over a third of all UK energy use, and 38% of its carbon
emissions, are accounted for by transport - mostly road
traffic.
- Aviation generates nearly as much carbon dioxide in one year as
the total population of Africa.
- An area of tropical rainforest equivalent to 16 football
pitches is destroyed every single minute.
- Housing in the UK accounts for 30% of total fuel use and
energy-related CO2 emissions.
- For every tonne of waste we produce in our homes, it is
estimated that 5 tonnes of waste has already been created at the
manufacturing stage, and 20 tonnes at the point where the raw
material was extracted.
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