The Green Button

Register with studentswapshop.com and you'll be pressing the right buttons.

Studentswapshop.com is dedicated to bringing you an affordable way to get the things you want whilst a student. Tell your friends you're now contributing to the drive to recycle and hopefully, they will do the same.

By recycling, you are doing your bit to help the environment at no cost and whilst having fun.

Now that we have your attention, here are some things that will suprise you.

• A study last year by the International Energy Agency found that a global switch to efficient lighting systems would cut the world's electricity bill by nearly a tenth. Incredibly, the emissions created by all the lightbulbs in the world are three times those caused by aviation! Visit The Energy Saving Trust to reduce emissions even more.

• One million tonnes of greenhouse gases are pumped into the atmosphere every year by appliances left on standby in the UK. When it comes to our myriad electrical appliances, off doesn't really mean off. Those little red lights or clock displays are still sucking out energy. Tomorrows climate, todays challenge. Visit climatechallenge.gov.uk to reduce your effect on the environment.

• On average every person in the UK throws away their own body weight in waste every seven weeks. Recycle, swap your goods on studentswapshop.com!

• Believe it or not, the stomachs of the world's 1.4 billion cows account for 14% of global emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than CO2.

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