Evaluate Your Own Environmental Impact from Your Everyday Activities

ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET

CPE6140

Environmental Protection and Impact

Title:

Evaluate your own environmental impact from your everyday activities

Student Name: Seon woo Son

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Registration No: 160237364

1. Introduction

The increasing consumption of water and electricity worldwide is a significant factor of increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Initially, energy trust agency (2013) reported that average consumption of water per capital was 142 litres a day in UK. Moreover, they addressed various usage sectors as to investigate in detail. The consumption of water as shower was estimated as the most water in average in household (refer to Fig 1.).

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Figure 1. Overall water consumption according to sectors (come from Energy Saving Trust 2013)

In general, showers and toilet can be major sectors of evaluating daily consumption water in household, and this report will then consider them as prime exploring fields with respect to data from 4 students.

The other critical study in this literature is analysis of daily-based electricity consumption with same 4 student samples above. Feedback on electricity consumption, that is, would also provide insight into better understanding of saving energy (Fischer 2008). The evaluation of daily consumption of electricity is primarily based in electrical equipment in household such as refrigerator, electric water heater, television, and light bulbs and other.

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Figure 2. Average electrcity consumption by sectors (come from Energy Saving Trust 2013)

These appliances above are ubiquitous to surrounding environment, and increasing gadgets in household may be coupled with increasing amount of electricity students are consuming.

Electricity and water seems a profound area for investigating consumption, especially targeting household. Given that different behavior of consuming both water and electricity for human-being, estimation of water and electricity would vary in significant ways consumer products. As a result, collecting of data given from 4 students could differ with each other.

1. Description of Methods

There are several methods for collecting data and analyzing related in daily water and electricity consumption from 4 student samples over 10 days. First of all, 4 students all classified calculation of electricity consumption into subsectors according to electronic devices with quantities and time for operating them. Student 4, for example, categorized according to individual electricity consumption and calculated total consumption shown table 1 and Fig 3. Student 1 and 4 carried out their data collection with the same ways to student 1.  While student 2 solely considered the record of daily consumption of electricity in terms of heating and lighting.