My carbon footprint

Since acquiring plot 12a I have been having to remove bags of pernicious weeds and old bits of wood and a lot of rubble. Once, or maybe twice per year, the allotment association rents a skip. This causes a flurry of manic activity and those closest to the knowledge of its delivery, usually those who are retired or not at work, wait in hiding with their disposable stuff, ready to dump it as soon as the skip arrives. Meanwhile folk like me end up discovering on a late Saturday morning that the skip is brimming to overfull.

Consequently, on average, I have been removing three bags of pernicious weed and other gubbins per week. Occasionally I also remove a bag of sieved rubble such as minor stones and metal bits. Large rubble and concrete bits I have piled up waiting for the annual skip or an opportunity to take them to the dump with my weeds.

Lets get this straight. We are talking pernicious weeds. The sort of ground elder type of root which just cannot be composted on the plot. So each week I have either driven to the local dump (know as a cowp in Scotland) or brought an occasional bag back to my house to put in the bin if I think it is a quiet week vis a vis the bin.

So it got me thinking. If I drive the equivalent of an eight mile trip with three bags of rubbish (based on average over the last eight months) each week - what does my carbon footprint look like ?