This one comes from Correspondent Hines, who, even in the midst of world travel with fiancee Tara, still has time to send us less exciting Londoners greenie websites. This, like the carbon emissions footprint on BP.com, is a quick and easy way to figure out what you're using and where.
Our household came in at 1/2 of national average but that's still 34 buckets of water per person per day. I bet the environment misses my pre-professional days when I'd wear the same pair of jeans 3, 4, 5...6 times before washing them.
Care of Correspondent Hines, reporting from Ecuador, behold the water calculator.
+ Find out how much water you use
It's been an interesting week trying to buy household products and food only made from recyclable packaging. A mixed bag. Literally. For example, I just made a rocket (arugula) salad with fresh mozzarella. The rocket I bought from Waitrose last week was in a recyclable bag made from recycled plastic. However, the rocket I bought from Sainbury's today was in a bag that did not have the recyclable sign, nor was it made from recycled plastic. The Sainsbury's mozzarella was equally guilty. However, Sainsbury's does use some bags that are recyclable, mainly for their organic products. Less confusing were the products in cardboards boxes/cartons and aluminum packaging. All clearly recyclable. And almost all of the plastic packaging we bought was recyclable apart from a few random items we bought at Marks and Spencers and the lunch spot Eat. Things like salad containers that looked like they were candidates for the recycling pile turned out not to have any recycling symbols...
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