Home - Summary of Eco-Region NW
Overall resource flows and impacts of the region
Eco Footprint
The NW region's eco-footprint is just over the UK average at 5.45 global hectares per person.
This is 3 times bigger than our fair 'earth share' of 1.8 global hectares, i.e. if the world's productive land area was equally shared with the world's population.
The sectors with the largest eco-footprint are food / drink: and home / energy.
The region's waste arisings from households, commerce and industry (13 million tonnes) contains enough embodied energy to power a large (2000MW) power station.
The local areas with the highest eco-footprint per head are Macclesfield and Fylde: and with the lowest, Halton and Barrow.
Liverpool, Manchester and Blackpool each have a eco-footprint of 200 times their actual area.
