Contribution of Food Production to Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Part 2: Transportation vs Packaging
In addition to agriculture the research discussed in yesterday’s Food Crumb, showed that our food system requires materials and energy for processing, packaging, transporting and storage. Of these, packaging had the highest emissions. Interestingly food miles were less important than packaging as transportation was 4.8% of total food emissions and packaging was 5.4%. This, of course, depended on the food and the packaging. Some foods, such as bananas, have a much higher transportation emission cost than their packaging and other have less.
Since most packaging used for processed and convenience foods, is this another reason for reducing our dependence on processed food?
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