The carbon footprint of pork, pe tray with pe film
Pork, PE Tray with PE Film emits about 1.034 kg CO₂e per 1 kg of fat and bone-free meat and edible offal. Below is where that figure actually comes from — every stage of the chain, not a single headline number.
- Transport
- 0.445 kg
- 43%
- Moving it from farm to processor to shop.
- Processing
- 0.366 kg
- 35%
- Turning the raw product into food: milling, refining, slaughter, curing.
- Packaging
- 0.223 kg
- 22%
- Producing the packaging it reaches you in.
How it is grown changes the number by 82%
These are 5 separately assessed production systems for the same product. Emissions are farm-gate — the part the grower controls — and range from 15.025 to 83.584 kg CO₂e. A label on a shelf almost never tells you which one you are holding.
- Cull sow, organic, system n°2, at farm gatelowest15.025
- Cull sow, organic, system n°1, at farm gate15.214
- Cull sow, organic, national average, at farm gate18.248
- Cull sow, organic, system n°4, at farm gate55.245
- Cull sow, organic, system n°3, at farm gate83.584
kg CO₂e per 1 kg of fat and bone-free meat and edible offal, 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 pork, pe tray with pe film produce?
- About 1.034 kg CO₂e per 1 kg of fat and bone-free meat and edible offal, measured across the supply chain. That is roughly the same as driving 6 km in an average petrol car.
- What drives the footprint of pork, pe tray with pe film?
- Transport is the largest contributor at 0.445 kg CO₂e, about 43% of the total. Transport is only 0.445 kg — which is why what you eat matters far more than how far it travelled.
- Does how pork, pe tray with pe film is produced change its footprint?
- Yes, substantially. Across 5 production methods in this dataset the farm-gate emissions range from 15.025 to 83.584 kg CO₂e — a difference of 82%.
- 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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