Ten Tips to reduce your Carbon Footprint

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Each of these tips will help save the environment – and save you money!

10 commonly known tips

• Switch off lights when not in use
• Buy energy-efficient light bulbs
• Insulate roofs to stop heat escaping
• Don’t leave machines on standby
• Reduce the temperature/time of showers
• Buy local seasonal food
• Mechanical lawnmower save energy and always start!
• Unplug Chargers
• Recycle as much materials as possible
• Insulate hot water tanks to stop heat escaping.
   

And some lesser known tips

• Don’t use computer screen-savers, instead let them go into sleep mode
• Laptops are twice as energy efficient as desktop computers, as they have been engineered to use as little power as possible
• Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console uses 4 times as much energy as a Sony PlayStation
• Soft tyres can add 2% to your fuel bill
• Swap red meat for fish or poultry to save more than 400 kg per year of carbon dioxide
• A 6 inch pot on an 8 inch hob wastes more than 40% of the hob's heat