How to cut back on carbon emissions.
Believe it or not landfill creates carbon emissions, so the less you put in your bin the more you are helping to keep the temperature of the planet down.
Two simple ways to cut back on rubbish is to buy less packaging in the first place, especially packaging that isn't recyclable and to compost your raw fruit and vegetable waste. Find out what else you can do on the Reuse, Reduce and Recycle sections of this website.
Car use is a fairly obvious source of carbon emissions, so finding ways to use your car less will help a lot.
It is also very much worth considering how much you need to holiday abroad, if you can make the trip by train and even if you can use video conferencing facilities rather than fly all over the world for 'important' business trips.
However, domestic fuel use is something else that causes carbon emissions, so using less and using clean, renewable energy is also important.
Manufacturing processes also need fuel there more manufactured goods you the more you are contributing to global warming.
Conventional agriculture uses fertilisers made from oil. Where tractors and other farm machinery are used oil in the form of diesel is used as fuel. Petroleum-based fuel is used to transport our food. Therefore buying more local produce and more organic produce, not to mention growing fruit and veg in your garden or windown box, organically and by hand, all help to reduce your 'carbon footprint', or your contribution to global warming.
