GoCarbonFree Offsetting Tips

Light work – save on bills and buy fluorescent light bulbs

• Everyone in the UK using fluorescent bulbs is equivalent to taking 1,4 million cars from the roads for one year
• They use 75% less energy than ordinary bulbs, last for six years and are very affordable


• Earn 34 personal carbon credits

Use 100% recycled toilet paper

• We use 14kgs of toilet paper each every year
• If the UK population bought just one recycled loo roll instead of an ordinary one, it would save 54,000 trees
• They cost exactly the same amount and feel just as soft

Earn 20 personal carbon credits

Get fit - cycle to work

• The energy used to create one car can be used for making 112 bicycles
• Cycling and walking transports you faster than a bus in peak-hour traffic and costs nothing

Earn 47 personal carbon credits

Visit home – travel by train and see more of the UK

• One flight to Rome generates almost one ton of carbon emission. Despite three times more people catching trains, air transport still causes twice the amount of CO².
• Eumiles offers a point system for train fares as of July 1st, visit Eurmile.com

Earn 111 personal carbon credits

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