10 Ways to Cut your Carbon Footprint

1. Compost at home - By reducing food waste, composting helps to lower CO2e emissions. Food loss and waste generate an estimated 8-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions while using land and water resources, placing increasing pressure on biodiversity.

2. Flying matters - Besides large CO2 offsetting for each passenger, there isn't a 'low-carbon' way of air travel. Planes travelling on routes of 700km or less emit more CO2 per person for every kilometre travelled than long-haul flights: 251 g/km for short-haul compared to 195 g/km for long-haul. Ultimately, limiting air travel and using alternative transport methods will cut your carbon.

3. Check Tyre pressures - A car tyre that isn't optimally inflated consumes more fuel per mile and more CO2 emissions. Additionally, the UK Government are assessing tax-related options, to try and ensure UK cars are using tyres with safe levels of tread and proper inflation to achieve better miles per gallon and lower CO2 emissions.

4. Switch to Fairphone 4 - Decrease your mobile phone's annual CO2 emissions by 31% with a Fairphone 4. Not only that but Fairphone harnesses the true power of recycling and fair materials with a skilled workforce to create the world's most ethical smartphone.

5. Diet is key - Eat as much local produce as possible and try to have meat-free days, which is something most people can achieve. By cutting transport distances and long refrigeration periods of products, consumers can significantly reduce the carbon footprint of their diets. Always look out for locations on labels. 

6. Switch your web browser to Ecosia - By simply using the Ecosia (runs off Bing) as your default search engine for free, your web searches will result in trees being planted. This may be the simplest way to be climate positive every day.

7. Climate-positive broadband - Effortlessly cut your carbon emissions by up to 50kg each month with Superfast speeds for your home. A 24-month contract would reduce 1.2 tonnes of CO2, which is equivalent to almost a UK cars total annual CO2 emissions. Don't forget our Feefo Trusted Service Award either for supplying high-quality customer service for climate-positive broadband.

8. Don't fear the doggy bag - When eating out and there's plenty left, take it home! Chances are the eateries menu wasn't designed to be low-carbon so it makes sense to limit waste and make the most of the higher carbon emissions produced in bringing the food to your table.

9. Are new clothes necessary? - Fast fashion is a term which has risen to prominence in recent years with 'slow fashion' proving to be the answer - by buying used and nearly new clothes to avoid emissions and pollution of newly made clothes. However, what could be considered as 'medium fashion' is also having a detrimental impact on production and transportation and this applies to most mid to up-market brands. Try and limit what you buy new and check brand sustainability.

10. Use your own bottles - Sounds overly simple, yet 7.7 billion plastic bottles were bought by the UK population in 2022 alone, with up to 5.5 billion ending up in landfill or the ocean. The transportation and refrigeration alone of bottled drinks is enormous and the plastic pollution is another global issue too. Help end single plastic use, pollution and the carbon emissions associated.