Small easy steps on how to reduce your Carbon Footprint

Tip One: Eat low on the food chain.

This means eating mostly fruits, vegetables, grains, and beans. Livestock—meat and dairy—is responsible for 14.5 percent of manmade global greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from feed production and processing and the methane (25 times more potent than CO2 at trapping heat in the atmosphere over 100 years) that beef and sheep belch out. Every day that you don’t eat meat and dairy, you can reduce your carbon footprint by 8 pounds—that’s 2,920 pounds a year.

Tip Two: Don’t buy fast fashion

Trendy, cheap items that go out of style quickly get dumped in landfills where they produce methane as they decompose. Currently, the average person discards about 80 pounds of clothing each year, 85 percent of which ends up in landfills. In addition, most fast fashion comes from China and Bangladesh, so shipping it to the U.K. requires the use of fossil fuels. Instead, buy quality clothing that will last.