"My Carbon Footprint” – “Problems & Solutions”

The amount of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere made by human’s activities directly or indirectly such as transportation used, food and goods consumption, electricity used and the energy used to produce the electricity as well called a carbon footprint. I measured my footprint in the survey at http://www.footprint.org.uk/ and scored 2.73. This means that I am living as if there 2.73 earths. It is under the UK average, but unfortunately we only have one precious earth. My score was divided almost equally in the four categories with food, travel, home and stuff at 25%, 23%, 24% and 28% respectively. My annual carbon footprint was 11.31 tonnes. Now I am going to outline some problem and possible solution for my carbon footprint.

First, highest percentage was for stuff because I do not recycle anything. Therefore, to reduce the percentage, I must recycle paper, food and plastics. My friend Hader told me that a lot of mosques have a recycle bin in front of their door so it is better to put useless paper there. Another issue is that I eat a lot of meat, so I need to reduce it to three times a week instead of once a day. Furthermore, I use my car a lot, so it is better to use it only when necessary rather than all the time. In this way I can help to decrease the amount of CO2 in the air and reduce pollution.

To conclude, it is important to determine our carbon footprint and know how we are contributing at global warming. Then we have to try and do our best to make our planet clean and safe. It is a major problem; therefore, everybody must become involved to solve it and live safely.