Easy on the shopping trips

Traipsing round the supermarket isn’t fun at the best of times, so why not get your food delivered to your doorstop? It’s only a few pennies more, and it’s a lot better for the environment, because delivering everyone’s shopping together is a lot more efficient. Four out of five of us use a motor for the big weekly food shop, so if every household in the UK had their food delivered, we’d save over 4 million tonnes of CO2 a year. That’s like putting low energy bulbs in 85 million lights.

• Shop in your pyjamas and let one of these four UK supermarkets deliver to your door: Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's or Waitrose/Ocado. You can even compare delivery times and charges here.
• Get lovely, fresh organic veg with award-winning home delivery service Abel and Cole, or by joining a box scheme.
• Pop on your pinny and try making your own yoghurt and bread rather than buying them.
• If you make more things yourself, at least you’ll know what’s in them.

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Here’s a thing…… according to formidably well-informed environmentalist George Monbiot, using the Internet for home delivery cuts the CO2 normally produced from the associated food transportation, refrigeration and lighting by up to 70%. Which is a lot.

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