Over Christmas in the UK, nearly 3 million tonnes of waste are dumped, a fair chunk of the UK’s annual 10 billion plastic bags are used, most of the 8 to 9 million Christmas trees bought will end up as landfill, a load of turkeys from Brazil and an estimated 16,000 tons of Christmas dinner will be thrown out in the garbage.
Posted by envirostats on Saturday, December 1, 2007
A great article on alternative activities for Christmas and to raise some awareness of the environment impact of Christmas in the UK. [Envirostats author]
- The Independent, Dec 1 2007
Monday, December 17, 2007 at 5:24 pm
I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links: