Who generates greenhouse gases?
Household activities:
Above - household activities add to greenhouse gases.
Australian households are believed to be responsible for almost one fifth (17.5 per cent) of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. This occurs through a family’s everyday activities such as household energy use and vehicle use (transport). Additionally, when food scraps, organic materials, garden wastes and paper are dumped into landfills they decay, generating carbon dioxide and methane.
In fact, an average Australian household will generate about 15 tonnes of greenhouse gases a year from these activities. Excluding energy used for personal vehicles and public transport, each Western Australian household produces around six tonnes of greenhouse gases every year.
More efficient use of energy in the home could reduce these greenhouse gas emissions by up to 30 per cent. For every kilowatt hour of electricity saved in the home, about 1.2kg of greenhouse gas emissions are saved.
For more information about greenhouse gases generated by Western Australian households, go to:
 www1.sedo.energy.wa.gov.au
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Farming and other agricultural activities.
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