Brighton and Hove has been crowned the most environmentally-friendly city in the UK, thanks to its switched-on recycling schemes, vegan restaurants and green habits of residents.
Research conducted Garden of Life has ranked 30 of the UK's biggest towns and cities on a variety of green factors to determine the country's most eco-friendly places. Brighton and Hove outperformed all other cities, with high numbers of charity shops, allotments and fewer people eating meat.
Bristol took the second spot, praised for its excellent recycling rates and green-fingered residents who grow their own food. Newcastle upon Tyne and Norwich came third and fourth, retrospectively, both of which were recognised for their charity shops and impressive recycling efforts.
"Whether it's recycling, shopping local, growing your own produce, or reducing the amount of meat in your diet, there are lots of ways to lower your footprint, but where in the UK is it easiest to go green?" say Garden of Life. "We've ranked some of the country's biggest towns and cities on a variety of green factors to determine which are the UK's best eco cities."
Take a look at the results below...
30 top eco-friendly towns and cities in the UK
- Brighton and Hove
- Bristol
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Norwich
- Edinburgh
- Leeds
- Nottingham
- Bournemouth
- Cardiff
- Aberdeen
- Manchester
- Southhampton
- Plymouth
- Leicester
- Kingston upon Hull
- Reading
- Derby
- Glasgow
- Belfast
- Northampton
- Sheffield
- London
- Portsmouth
- Liverpool
- Wolverhampton
- Coventry
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Bradford
- Birmingham
- Luton
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