School communities across Devon completed over 23,000 active journeys during this year’s Sustrans Big Pedal, the UK’s largest walking, wheeling, cycling and scooting to school challenge. During the competition, which took place between 19 to 30 April, Devon school children were physically active – walking, cycling, wheeling and scooting to school, and completing physical activities – for a total of nearly 240,000 minutes...
If the children taking active journeys during Sustrans Big Pedal had travelled to school by car instead, this could have created 14 tonnes of CO2 and 27kg of NOx. That’s enough to fill over 510,000 party balloons with harmful CO2 emissions.
Today the amazing journey begins! Good luck to the 72 #Devon schools taking part in the #BigPedal fortnight🚲🛴🚶♀️🧑🦽Don't forget to make use of all the free resources on offer @DevonCC @SustransSouth @Teignbridge @ndevoncouncil @Torbay_Council @plymouthcc
— Sustrans Devon (@SustransDevon) April 19, 2021
How unfortunate that corporate polluters aren't making the same efforts. Aggregate Industries' plans for Straitgate Farm, for example, would fill over 160,000,000 party balloons with harmful CO2 emissions.
