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The food on your plate

• Carbon footprint of different foods

• Food accounts for 10-30% of a household's carbon footprint

• Foods are responsible for 60% of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture

• Food tops the list of everyday purchases that most impact the environment in European countries

• Growing, processing and transporting food

• How bad are bananas? The carbon footprint of everything

• Sixty percent of all mammals on Earth are farm animals

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The clothes you wear

• Clothing came fourth in a list of everyday purchases that most damage the environment

• Microfibres have been found in almost everything we eat and drink

• Textile use per person in the European Union

• The fashion industry is responsible for 8-10% of global emissions

• We now buy fives times as many clothes in the UK as we did in the 1980s

• 2,700 litres of water to make just one T-shirt

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The way you travel

• About a third of a car’s lifetime carbon emissions were generated during manufacturing

• Aviation emits gases directly into the higher levels of the atmosphere

• European households spend the largest share of their income on transport

• Road vehicles account for nearly three quarters of the greenhouse gas emissions from transport

• The transport sector is responsible for emitting more greenhouse gases than any other

The way you shop

• Emissions generated in the supply chain can be 5 to 10 times higher

• Manufacturing industries emit 880 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents every year

• We place more online orders than we need to

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The way you handle your waste

• In the UK, we chuck out about 220 million tonnes of waste every year

• Landfill gases have to be managed on site

• Manufacturing new items generates greenhouse gases