Evening News 24 - City schools just barely reduce carbon footprint
The Climate Change Champions, run by Norwich Union and Global Action Plan, saw five city schools reduce their collective carbon footprint by an impressive 6.1 tonnes of CO2 within just 12 months.
The five Norwich schools involved in the project were, Hellesdon High School, Old Catton, Thorpe St Andrew, Erpingham Primary and Mulbarton Junior.
Collectively, the five schools involved managed to reduce their CO2 emissions from electricity by 2.6 tonnes, from heating by 0.6 tonnes, and from waste, by sending it to be recycled rather than landfilled, by an impressive 6 tonnes.
The carbon footprint would have been reduced by 9 tonnes overall but the amount of paper used by one of the schools was actually increased.
At the start of the programme, the collective carbon footprint of the five schools involved stood at 280 tonnes a month, enough CO2 to fill 56 hot air balloons.
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Seeing as how that 6.1 tonnes includes 0.6 for heating and not every month requires heating, that 6.1 seems to be an annual figure. They quoted the monthly before figure. If you assume the 6.1 was monthly, then that represents 2.2% of the monthly 280 amount. If it is indeed annual, then the 6.1 represents only 0.18% of the annual amount. Either way, both of those figures are within normal fluxuations based on what kind of weather was present.
Not weather related, but a comment on the quality of the article. The Norwich Evening News must have hired one of the elementary school students to write the photo caption.
"Erpingham Primary school pupil Bella Callingham with there owl made from recyled items."
Or maybe "there" is the British English spelling of "their."
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