Carbon footprint

Many of the large companies are now joining up with the Carbon Trust to show how much carbon is used to provide products to the shop and how much energy used to cook, wash or prepare the food. The top half is the amount of greenhouse gases emitted during the products lifecycle displayed in grammes, kilogrammes or tonnes on a simple single footprint. Below this is the symbol CO2 (carbon dioxide) denoting the total amount of green house gas emissions including preparing and cooking.

Another site to look at is the carbon footprint pages with a great carbon calculator to show how much carbon is emitted during our travel, eating and lifestyles. www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx. One example is a carton of 100% pure squeezed orange juice where 91% of carbon emission value went on production and 1% on distribution leaving 8% for comsumption.

This is a great way of not only checking how much fat, salt and sugar there are in products but now a carbon value too.

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