Buy second hand, refurbished and reconditioned things.

Swapping clothes, furniture, books, CDs, toys, bicycles, sports and baby equipment saves money, resources, waste and energy.

Only buying new things when you need them rather than on a whim saves all the embedded climate impact of unnecessary stuff.

Use 24 washable nappies rather than 5000 disposables per baby saving up to 40% of the emissions and a mountain of nappy waste.

Avoid air freighted and greenhouse grown food. Both have an unnecessarily high energy use and climate impact.

25% of all lorries on UK roads are carrying food. Buy local or regional.

The energy used to produce food packaging added to the methane from biodegradable packaging rotting in landfill cause CO2e emissions.

Composting food waste saves the potent methane emissions from food rotting in landfill. It also stores carbon which is then transferred to the soil.

A Pescatarian who adds fish to an otherwise vegetarian diet is considered to have only a 2.5% increased climate impact.

A Vegetarian diet saves over 1.2 tonnes CO2e per year