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Forty five per cent of all consumer spending in 2002 was on recreation and transport (mainly spending on the purchase and running of cars).
Water consumption per head in households increased by 7 per cent between 1992 and 2002 in England and Wales. However, average demand, as measured by water put into public supply, was 4 per cent lower in 2002 than in 1993, partly as a result of a reduction in leakage.
New refrigerators in 2002 consumed on average 36 per cent less electricity than new models bought in 1989.
Pesticide residues in food have continued to fall.
Overseas flights by UK residents more than quadrupled between 1980 and 2002, and visits to the UK by air more than doubled.
Total freight movement increased by 81 per cent between 1970 and 2001. In 2001, 64 per cent of freight transport was by road, similar to the proportion in 1970, whilst the proportion moved by rail fell from 18 per cent to 8 per cent.