How Much Is 100kg Of CO2?
So when you are shopping via the Green Steve Shop, you may be wondering how much CO2 you are actually saving. I mean, most people can’t put a figure to their carbon footprint so me telling you that you are offsetting 100kg of CO2 equivalent probably doesn’t mean much.
This article gives you some examples that are a little bit more tangible and that you can relate back to the amount you have offset.
All figures below relate to roughly 100kg of CO2 equivalent:
Driving 300 miles in an average car – that’s a round trip from London to Cardiff. | |
1408 average cups of tea (with milk, boiling double the water you need) – so if you sink 5 cups a day, 7 days a week then it’s around 10 months worth. | |
333 pints of locally brewed cask ale at the pub or 200 pints of foreign beer in the same pub – that’s many very enjoyable nights down the pub. | |
20 hours in an average electric shower – 200 days worth if you spend an average of 6 minutes per shower. | |
1250 bananas – that is 1 banana a day for 3 years and 155 days. | |
125 pints of semi-skimmed milk – how many bowls of cereal could you get out of that? | |
143kg of typical rubbish going to landfill or being incinerated – that’s about 5 months worth for the average person in the UK. | |
96 bottles of wine – you’d have to have a wine cellar for that many bottles! | |
40 quarter pounder cheeseburgers – not to mention the pounds you’d pile on if you ate this many. | |
Leaving a 60w bulb on for 161 days or leaving a 6.4w led bulb running for 1514 days – that’s over 4 years. | |
Over 8kg of hard cheese – I don’t even want to think how long it would take me to eat this much cheese! |
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