It has been researched that an average Brit has helped in creating around 650 kilograms of carbon-di-oxide (CO2) over three days around Christmas this year. The carbon emissions were helped by massive travelling undertaken along with tons of food wastes.

Researchers from York University’s Stockholm Institute conducted a detailed study based on inputs from airline bookings, groceries sold and other items that could contribute towards emitting carbon.

The entire UK community has been estimated to have travelled around 3 billion miles during Christmas for various reasons. So, on an average, every Brit would have travelled 121 miles during Christmas; that’s a lot of travelling. And, this is only UK we are talking about; imagine the intensity for the entire Christmas celebrating folks in other parts of the world.

While travel has contributed tons and heaps, food hasn’t left itself too much behind. The Christmas dinner alone has contributed to a mountain of waste which included peelings from 240 million sprouts, 105 million potatoes and 20 million carrots. Adding and calculating the law of averages from the mountain of waste, an average Brit has contributed to 26 kilograms of carbon over three days. It would make an interesting comparison on the carbon contribution scale for a regular meal.

All the pollution mentioned above is just for one dinner; I am afraid to extrapolate it for the holiday season. We humans pollute our atmosphere in almost everything we do. Gosh!

via BBC