OUGD601 | Packaging Research - 'Humans consume more than planet can produce on ‘Earth Overshoot Day’. Online Website, Euronews

Euronews (2013) Humans consume more than planet can produce on ‘Earth Overshoot Day’. Available at http://www.euronews.com/2013/08/20/humans-consume-more-than-planet-can-produce-on-earth-overshoot-day. 

• There are only so many natural resources the earth can supply and today we’ve gone over our annual limit.
• Earth Overshoot Day is the point in the year when humans have used as much nature, such as land, trees and fish, as the planet’s ecosystems can regenerate.
According to figures sourced by the Global Footprint Network, an independent think tank based in the United States, Switzerland, and Belgium, the first time that human consumption outstripped the planet’s capability to produce was December 29 1970. Since then the date has been creeping forward each year.
• The UK consumes and produces waste at a rate three and a half times greater than it can sustain.