frogspawn

More plastic = less greenhouse gas

Lord Stern pointed out that if we all changed to a vegetarian diet, it would make a major contribution to slow global warming since:

• more energy is used to produce meat and

• methane from animals is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide

Here are a 2 other less-obvious things we can do:

• Make more things out of wood - this locks up the carbon for a period - as long as we recycle and don't burn the wood afterwards.

• Make more durable things from plastic. (yes plastic!) - again this locks up the carbon in the fossil fuel instead of burning it.