To calculate my personal carbon footprint I used the International
Student Challenge Carbon Footprint Challenge via answering
50 questions (total) about my lifestyle, consumption, purchases, transport and
more. As seen in my results it is clear that I am below the Australian average
in my carbon emissions, with a far lower footprint. I predicted this outcome
for three primary reasons, we never leave electronics one we are not using,
hardly buy anything new and recycle everything that is recyclable. Out of the
four categories my lowest was purchases, with 116 kgs compared to the average
of 1,027 kgs in Australia, a difference of 991 kgs. This can be brought back to
two things, the first is that I and my family do not buy things which we are
not going to use for quite some time and the disposable things we do use are
almost always recycled. All in all I believe my results are very good compared
to the rest of Australia, however this is only compared to Australia, the average
carbon footprint of other countries differ greatly, after all Australia is one
of the largest consumers in the world, wasting 30% of all food we buy (on average),
so our average is quite high.
Brook and Regan
Oct 14, 2020