Green Halloween: 7 scary sustainability stats

It's the time of year for fancy dress, scary movies, vampires and werewolves. But there are real horrors in the world lurking in the shadows; creeping out of exhaust pipes and rising from the tombs of forgotten costumes and plastic broomsticks.


The threat of climate change may not induce nightmares but it’s a very real problem. Water scarcity is a huge issue – one that continues to stalk mankind like an unseen ghost.

We continue to cut through rainforests to fill our plates, yet almost half of the food we produce doesn’t even reach our mouths.

And Fossil fuels continue to rip through the environment like a masked man in a slasher film, with the effects spreading death in the streets of London.

So in honour of the scariest night of the year, here’s a round-up edie’s scariest sustainability facts for you to take a look at, if you dare…

Matt Mace

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