Simple grocery hacks – including swapping out red meat for chicken or plant-based alternatives, opting for dairy-free milk and yoghurt and choosing fruit toast instead of muffins – could substantially cut household greenhouse gas emissions, new research has found.
A report by the George Institute for Global Health found switches could reduce a household’s climate pollution by six tonnes a year, which it said was roughly equivalent to the emissions from an average household’s grid-based electricity use.
