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 1^oC 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.