"But these improvements cannot justify a five-fold decrease in the amount of ink in a cartridge," Brooks says.
Worse still, the CSIRO's soil carbon trials actually showed a decrease in the amount of carbon stored in the soil.
There was a significant increase in absolute numbers, and a decrease in the amount of people driving to work.
A lot of us are on financial aid, and we appreciate any sort of decrease in the amount of money we're spending here".
Only the north-west of the UK and Northern Ireland saw a decrease in the amount of bathroom rubbish found on beaches compared with the previous year.
He believes that this shift was due to a decrease in the amount of particulate material in the atmosphere.
This decrease in the amount of available energy affects and often reduces the productivity of plants, animals, and microorganisms.
While some metrics appear to suggest the UK's air as a whole appears to be getting steadily cleaner – with an 8.4% decrease in the amount of greenhouse gases produced since 2010 – such figures can often be wildly misleading.
Dossett added that the practicalities of delivering right to buy in the social housing sector had still not been resolved, with "real concerns" that it could lead to a decrease in the amount of housing stock.
Yet, he said, age-related changes in joint cartilage, combined with a decrease in the amount of lubricating joint fluid it produces in conditions like osteoarthritis, do probably contribute to stiffness.
Supporters of the current law say it has led to an increase in transracial adoptions and a decrease in the amount of time minority children spend in foster care before being adopted.
