Carbon footprint

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I had never heard about a calculator footprint before and there are a few about. On this, my usage came out at 9 tonnes which is around average for the UK which surprised me but it's well below average for my area which is 14 tonnes. .

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[weepiper]

8 tonnes. Area average is 12. I don't own a car, walk/cycle/bus everywhere and rarely fly.

 

[nottsgirl]

I got 9.5 and the area average was 8. I think I tripped up because I had bought a new tv and fridge freezer within the past year.

 

[cupid_stunt]

What a load of old bollocks, on the left it says my footprint is well below the UK average, and on the right...

 

[farmerbarleymow]

It seems to want an email address so I didn't collect my results

 

[farmerbarleymow]

It should really also ask how many foods like legumes you eat. People who fart a lot will be affecting climate change.

 

[Saul Goodman]

What a load of old bollocks

It's absolute bollocks. It's just another data mining exercise, with a massive carbon footprint

 

[mentalchik]

8 tonnes. Area average is 12. I don't own a car, walk/cycle/bus everywhere and rarely fly.

me too....some of the stuff about house insulation etc i can't answer as i live in a HA block of flats and have no control/idea about and i've only flown 4 times in my life (am 62 in a couple of weeks)

 

[magneze]

It seems to want an email address so I didn't collect my results

You can just press the button without entering anything.

 

[magneze]

8.2, less than the national average of 8.4. Way below the area average which is 13.5!

Worldwide average is 6.3 though.

 

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Worldwide average is 6.3 though

A large part of the world/population are not nearly as rich as people in the West.

 

[StoneRoad]

hmmmm.

7,5 tonnes seems a bit high - although we {as a household} do waste a lot of food, much more than I think is acceptable - which is also fxxxxing expensive for a bunch of oldies on fixed incomes.

but I'm in a rural area with bugger all public transport [ie mile and a half plus 600ft difference away from bus / railway] and I don't travel abroad.

Also stuck with LPG central heating ... getting solar panels could be interesting as we are just inside a national park with a "difficult" planning department ... and we do use quite a lot of home-grown wood from tree pruning / pollarding for heating.

A lot of what you might think is recycled actually isn't ... glass, for example, which should be almost infinitely recyclable, often ends up as a "filler" ... also, have you tried getting aluminium cans recycled recently ?

 

[xenon]

Load of bollocks, it says mine is 10.3. Area avg is 10.2.

I reckon that's because I eat meat, do get takeaways and flew once last year but can't remember if I offset it, so said no.

Also not sure what temp my flat is, I just put the heating on when I'm cold, not leave it on to reach some specific temp.

 

[Leafster]

Load of bollocks, it says mine is 10.3. Area avg is 10.2.

I reckon that's because I eat meat, do get takeaways and flew once last year but can't remember if I offset it, so said no.

Also not sure what temp my flat is, I just put the heating on when I'm cold, not leave it on to reach some specific temp.

Mine came out at 10.6 in an area where the average is 13.4 tonnes.

The most significant contribution to my carbon footprint came from my home but I don't think there was enough detail in the questions to make it accurate. For instance, just asking what temperature you heat your house without asking how long the heating is on for doesn't give an accurate result.

 

[hash tag]

You do not need to input email stuff to get a result. I do care about my carbon footprint print and thought it would be lower than average as I have not flown for years, commute on foot, am virtually, no totally vegetarian and buy very few clothes. I think my score was so high because of heating, no DBL glazing, no insulation and also I can only get bog standard electricity.

 

[WouldBe]

Mines 6.8