Milk

Did you know what the carbon impact is of a pint of milk? No, neither did I.

Anyway, apparently the humble pinta contributes 800g of carbon to produce it, but you can knock 60g off that if you recycle the plastic bottle it comes in.

To put it another way, it's equivalent to me driving about 6km (or roughly 3 and 3/4 miles) in my trusty Peugeot 206. Or it's roughly equivalent to a unit (1KW/h) of electricity - most calculations come out betwwen 400g-to-1Kg per unit depending on whether it's coal or gas you are burning.

I've got a sneaky suspicion that when I calculate the carbon impact of food miles/production then this will far outtsrip my household electricty usage (meaning I need to take a closer look at this aspect of my overall impact than I have hitherto been doing....)

Enrico