5 ecocrimes

Toilet paper, coffee drinking, dumpster diving for clothes, big screen tvs...what more can YOU do? Read over at the New Scientist:

Yet that still means a six-a-day caffeine habit clocks up more than 175 kilograms of CO₂each year. That's the equivalent of a flight across Europe - from London to Rome, say. Add milk, and the methane belched by dairy cows means you increase your coffee's climate-changing emissions by more than a third.

175 kilograms The annual CO₂ emission of a six-a-day coffee habit. Equivalent to a single flight between London and Rome

It doesn't end there, though. The environmental group WWF has calculated that it takes 200 litres of water to produce the coffee, milk, sugar and cup for just one regular takeout latte. So if everyone ditched their pre-work coffee fix that would do wonders for the planet.