Calculations of the environmental burden from a model family's consumption show that family activities associated with eating make up more than one‐third of the family's total consumption of resources and discharges to the surroundings. Car transport and residential heating together also account for one‐third of the family's resource consumption and discharges to the surroundings. The remaining third of resource consumption and discharges to the environment relates especially to the consumption of goods during leisure activities around the home, clothing, hygiene and health as well as cleaning.
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Dall et al. (1996) studied this question.