Is your partner’s carbon footprint big, medium or small? Use the information below to find out. 1. Travel a. 1 kilometre = 200 kg* b. 1 trip = 900 kg*
2. Daily life a. 1 hour = 30 kg* b. 1 hour = 15 kg* c. standby = 10 kg* d. shower = 30 kg*; bath = 60 kg*
3. Waste No recycling = 300 kg*; every 1% recycling = minus 3 kg*
4. Food Meat one day a week = 320 kg (so, e.g., 2 days per week = 640 kg) Meat production creates seven times more greenhouse gas than vegetable and fruit production.
*CO2 per year on average
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48 use Life stages Figure 2: LCA for PCs: production of CO2