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The average shower lasts 8 minutes - using  62 litres of hot water, compared with an average bath’s 80 litres.

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Airlines are responsible for 2-3% of the world’s carbon emissions.

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Every square km of the ocean has an average of 13,000 pieces of plastic floating in it.

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The average New Yorker produces just 30% of the greenhouse emissions of the average US citizen.

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At the earth’s distance from the sun we receive about 1.4 kilowatts of solar energy per square meter, half of which makes it through the atmosphere to the surface.

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