The carbon footprint of turkey, pe tray with pe film
Turkey, PE Tray with PE Film emits about 1.49 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.
- Processing
- 0.777 kg
- 52%
- Turning the raw product into food: milling, refining, slaughter, curing.
- Transport
- 0.49 kg
- 33%
- Moving it from farm to processor to shop.
- Packaging
- 0.223 kg
- 15%
- Producing the packaging it reaches you in.
How it is grown changes the number by 29%
These are 3 separately assessed production systems for the same product. Emissions are farm-gate — the part the grower controls — and range from 5.434 to 7.625 kg CO₂e. A label on a shelf almost never tells you which one you are holding.
- Turkey, conventional, at farm gatelowest5.434
- Turkey, national average, at farm gate5.5
- Turkey, Label Rouge, at farm gate7.625
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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Each emits less than half as much as turkey, pe tray with pe film.
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Common questions
- How much CO2 does turkey, pe tray with pe film produce?
- About 1.49 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 9 km in an average petrol car.
- What drives the footprint of turkey, pe tray with pe film?
- Processing is the largest contributor at 0.777 kg CO₂e, about 52% of the total. Transport is only 0.49 kg — which is why what you eat matters far more than how far it travelled.
- Does how turkey, pe tray with pe film is produced change its footprint?
- Yes, substantially. Across 3 production methods in this dataset the farm-gate emissions range from 5.434 to 7.625 kg CO₂e — a difference of 29%.
- 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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