The carbon footprint of cashew nuts, ldpe bag
Cashew Nuts, LDPE Bag emits about 0.171 kg CO₂e per 1 kg of shell-free dry nut. Below is where that figure actually comes from — every stage of the chain, not a single headline number.
- Transport
- 0.113 kg
- 66%
- Moving it from farm to processor to shop.
- Processing
- 0.047 kg
- 27%
- Turning the raw product into food: milling, refining, slaughter, curing.
- Packaging
- 0.011 kg
- 6%
- Producing the packaging it reaches you in.
How it is grown changes the number by 36%
These are 5 separately assessed production systems for the same product. Emissions are farm-gate — the part the grower controls — and range from 2.824 to 4.433 kg CO₂e. A label on a shelf almost never tells you which one you are holding.
- Walnut, dried inshell, varieties with lateral fructification, conventional, at farm gatelowest2.824
- Walnut, dried inshell, conventional, national average, at farm gate3.695
- Walnut, dried inshell, national average, at farm gate3.798
- Walnut, dried inshell, traditional varieties, conventional, at farm gate3.985
- Walnut, dried inshell, traditional varieties, organic, at farm gate4.433
kg CO₂e per 1 kg of shell-free dry nut, cradle to farm gate. Farm-gate figures exclude processing, packaging and transport, so they sit below the full total above.
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Common questions
- How much CO2 does cashew nuts, ldpe bag produce?
- About 0.171 kg CO₂e per 1 kg of shell-free dry nut, measured across the supply chain. That is roughly the same as driving 1 km in an average petrol car.
- What drives the footprint of cashew nuts, ldpe bag?
- Transport is the largest contributor at 0.113 kg CO₂e, about 66% of the total. Transport is only 0.113 kg — which is why what you eat matters far more than how far it travelled.
- Does how cashew nuts, ldpe bag is produced change its footprint?
- Yes, substantially. Across 5 production methods in this dataset the farm-gate emissions range from 2.824 to 4.433 kg CO₂e — a difference of 36%.
- Where does this data come from?
- The WRAP UK Food & Drink Emission Factor Database v2.0, which aggregates peer-reviewed life-cycle assessments. This product's figures come from Foodsteps.
Figures from the WRAP UK Food & Drink Emission Factor Database v2.0, which aggregates published life-cycle assessments; this product's data originates from Foodsteps, for UK. Real values vary by farm, region and method — treat these as the shape of the problem, not a measurement of any one item on your shelf.
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