Wrap, a government waste watchdog, has released statistics stating that Britain loses 100 million a year by throwing away hot drinks that have gone cold. Given that we are in a credit crunch, this £100 million a year could be used by the public to help their economic situation without relying on government help. This is such an easy change to make in order to stave off poverty. No one loses out in this scenario. The public get a cup of tea, they save a good few pounds a year and the government will have to help less people out of relative poverty.

Reheating a hot drink gone cold is 5 times better for the environment than making a new cup the Government waste watchdog Wrap has revealed in its latest survey. Whilst some may see the kettle and the microwave as using the same amount of electricity this is in fact not the case. It would only take a short 10 seconds blast of a conventional microwave to reheat a medium sized cup of tea. The kettle would take longer to boil – especially as people do not like boiling the same water in the kettle twice. Also, a microwave will only heat the cup of tea you put in there, with a kettle, people often put more water in than they will use, so power is being wasted on pointlessly boiling water. We also need to take into consideration, the milk, sugar and tea bag production of carbon emissions. By not remaking the cup of tea, we save on all of this carbon.