Sustainable tea & coffee drinkers

Single use coffee cups contribute around 52,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide to our atmosphere and some brands of tea-bags can be up to 25% plastic. But which UK residents are the most clued up when it comes to the environmental impact of their favourite brews? We evaluated the habits of over 100 UK cities using Google search volumes and survey data to find out.

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Methodology

A data analysis of the UK's most sustainable coffee and tea consumers by using the average monthly search data for relevant terms and Google Surveys data.

Average Google monthly search data: By using google keyword planner we were able to gather average search volumes at city level from Jan 2020 to May 2021. This was then normalised by taking into account population numbers and calculating average search volumes per 100,000 people.
Google Surveys: conducted between the 12th and 15th of February 2021. (2,000 respondents).