The carbon footprint of gex blue cheese, or jura blue cheese or septmoncel blue cheese, from cow's milk
Gex blue cheese, or Jura blue cheese or Septmoncel blue cheese, from cow's milk emits about 0.75 kg CO₂e per 1 kg of prepared product. Below is where that figure actually comes from — every stage of the chain, not a single headline number.
- Packaging
- 0.267 kg
- 36%
- Producing the packaging it reaches you in.
- Transport
- 0.258 kg
- 34%
- Moving it from farm to processor to shop.
- Processing
- 0.225 kg
- 30%
- Turning the raw product into food: milling, refining, slaughter, curing.
Lower-carbon alternatives
Each emits less than half as much as gex blue cheese, or jura blue cheese or septmoncel blue cheese, from cow's milk.
Fresh broccoli (field production)
0.372
kg CO₂e
50% lower
Fruit soft drink, carbonated (less than 10% of fruit juice), without sugar and artificial sweetener(s)
0.364
kg CO₂e
51% lower
Fruit soft drink, carbonated (less than 10% of fruit juice), without sugar and with artificial sweetener(s)
0.364
kg CO₂e
51% lower
Bananas, LDPE Bag
0.362
kg CO₂e
52% lower
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Common questions
- How much CO2 does gex blue cheese, or jura blue cheese or septmoncel blue cheese, from cow's milk produce?
- About 0.75 kg CO₂e per 1 kg of prepared product, measured across the supply chain. That is roughly the same as driving 4 km in an average petrol car.
- What drives the footprint of gex blue cheese, or jura blue cheese or septmoncel blue cheese, from cow's milk?
- Packaging is the largest contributor at 0.267 kg CO₂e, about 36% of the total. Transport is only 0.258 kg — which is why what you eat matters far more than how far it travelled.
- 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 Agribalyse (ADEME).
Figures from the WRAP UK Food & Drink Emission Factor Database v2.0, which aggregates published life-cycle assessments; this product's data originates from Agribalyse (ADEME), for France. 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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