How can you help - Possible Quotes and Statistics

Climate Change

Everyone:

• If just 20 employees turned off their computers during a lunch hour, they would save over 3700 watts of electricity.
• The combined effect of appliances being left on stand-by is 4,000,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions in the UK each year. 

Personal:

• 10-15% of the average household electricity bill is attributable to power used by machines during their stand-by periods. 
• The average household wastes £37 each year by leaving appliances on standby.
• Turn your thermostat down by just one degree and you'll reduce your carbon emissions by 325kg. You'll also save around £35 on your fuel bill.
• Lowering your washing temperature to 30°C can save around 40% energy per wash.

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Waste

Everyone:

• If everyone in the UK stopped using plastic bags and switched to a reusable bag, each year we'd save enough plastic to tie around the earth 103 times.
• The UK currently produces 28 million tons of household waste per year. 60% of this is buried in landfill sites. 35% of the average household's waste can be easily composted.
• UK shoppers waste 6.7 million tonnes of food every year, enough to fill Wembley Stadium eight times over.
• If everyone in the UK recycles just 1 Chrisitmas card, it would save 1,570 tonnes of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gases - the same as taking 500 cars off the road for a year.

Personal:

• On average, a third of all the food we buy ends up being thrown away. 

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Sustainable Raw Materials

Everyone:

• Water is a precious resource and, in the UK, we use 150 litres of it per person, every day. This has been rising by 1% a year since 1930. Demand for water could outstrip the supply by 6-10% by the end of the decade.
• It's estimated that we discard around 1m tonnes of clothing each year in the UK, a lot of which is good enough to be re-sold or recycled. 

Personal:

• Install a water saving Hippo in your toilet cistern. This simple device can save up to 3 litres of water - or a third of the cistern volume - every time you flush. 
• The average home drive way wash uses 100-350 litres of water.

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Fair Partner

Personal:

• By choosing to invest ethically you know that your money will not be used to fund arms, tobacco or other potentially damaging industries.
• 25 million coffee-farming families are dependent on their crop to feed and clothe themselves. Choosing to buy Fairtrade means you're investing in better lives for millions of people.

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Health

Everyone

• The UK Government has stated that cancer and coronary heart disease account for 60% of all early deaths. A key factor in combating these diseases is good health and nutrition.
• Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the UK. It accounts for nearly 1 in 3 of all cancers in women and nearly 46,000 women are diagnosed each year in the UK.

Personal:

• Eating your 5 a day can reduce your risk of heart disease.
• Regular exercise is vital to our health. In addition to helping you maintain a healthy weight, exercise helps combat stress, depression and fatigue.
• Increasing the heart rate for just 30 minutes a day cuts your risk of heart disease in half.
• A diet that is high in salt is one of the contributing factors to heart disease.

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