Green Factoids of the Week

* Appliances in standby mode account for 8% of UK household energy use
* Lighting accounts for 25% of all electricity consumed worldwide
* When doing the dishes, washing them by hand requires on average 37% less water than an energy efficient dishwasher
* In most homes, lighting accounts for 10 - 15% of the electricity bill
* UK households use £1.2 billion worth of electricity every year on lighting
* If every UK household installed three energy efficient light bulbs it would save enough energy in a year to supply all the country's street lighting
* Depending on age, if a TV, photocopier or computer is left on standby it is still using 40 - 70% of the energy it would if being used
* A photocopier left on overnight uses enough energy to produce over 1500 copies
* By switching your washing machine to 40 degrees instead of 60 degrees, you can cut your electricity consumption by a third
* Lighting an average office overnight wastes enough energy to heat water for 1000 cups of tea
* Denmark will use wind for 50% of the country's electricity by 2030
* Remember to switch off your computer monitor when it is not in use. Monitors use over 60% of your computer's electricity output
* In the UK, we buy over 680 million non-rechargeable batteries each year
* Energy efficient light bulbs emit 75 pounds of carbon dioxide less per year
* 95% of the energy used by the phone chargers in this country is wasted. They're only doing their job - i.e. charging phones - for 5% of the time
* The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle is enough to power a light bulb for four hours.
* We use over six billion glass bottles and jars each year. It would take you over three and a half thousand years to sing "Six Billion Green Bottles"!