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Food
Avoid heavily-processed food and go for healthier alternativesHelp

Did you know: Processed foods often have a high content of salts, saturated fats and sugars, so eating fresh unprocessed food helps maintain a healthy diet. The manufacture of processed foods uses large amounts of energy, water and materials in production, chilling, packaging and transport as well as producing large amounts of waste.
Travel
When staying in a hotel, ensure your sheets and towels are not changed dailyHelp

Did you know: This will save on both water and energy.
Home
Use less waterHelp

Did you know: Large scale drought is already happening across vast swathes of the UK, and although we have less available water per person than most other European countries, we use a third more per person per day.
Stuff
Buy, sell and swap onlineHelp

Why not get rid of your unwanted goods on Ebay or see if there is a Freecycle group near you. The Freecycle Network provides a virtual outlet to "recycle" unwanted items - furniture, bicycles, to old doors. And everything offered is free.

Food
Buy fairly traded food and drinkHelp

Did you know: When you buy food from overseas, try to buy fairly traded products - such as those certified by Fairtrade - which encourages investment in people - promoting social justice, local economic development and fair prices.
Food
Buy more seasonal foodHelp

Did you know: Although we could meet over 70% of our eating needs from food grown in the UK, we import more than half of the food we consume. Buying locally-grown, seasonal food would mean we could reduce our food miles, use less packaging to preserve fresh produce, and not least help us reconnect with the annual patterns of seasonal produce.
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Use charity shops
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Dispose of household products safelyHelp

Did you know: Over half of marine oil pollution globally comes from sources on land - a common source is sump oil from cars washed down drains ending up in the sea.

After all this, Angel will have a footprint of 1.82 planets, and a carbon footprint of 6.39 tonnes per annum

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