This years festive fare in the UK will cost the carbon equivalent of 6,000 car journeys around the globe according to a report featured on the BBC News Website.

This year’s turkey dinner will create 51,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.

Academics calculated the production, processing and transportation costs of the usual festive ingredients on our dinner tables each year. The Manchester researchers estimate a dinner for eight generates 20kg (44lbs) of carbon dioxide emissions.

They arrived at the total emissions figure by assuming one third of the UK population eats a typical Christmas dinner with all the trimmings.

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