Buy Local! That's The Key. This Means Supporting Local Growers. Its Much Better For The Environment Growing And Buying Organic, But What If That Organic Product Has Come From, Say Chile? That's A Long Haul Journey For Your Apples To Go! Its Better To Go Food Miles

In total "Buy Local! That's The Key. This Means Supporting Local Growers. Its Much Better For The Environment Growing And Buying Organic, But What If That Organic Product Has Come From, Say Chile? That's A Long Haul Journey For Your Apples To Go! Its Better To Go " has been searched for 2 times. The total mileage contribution of this is 3,150 miles!

This means that the average distance is 1,575 miles - that's 61% closer than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, travelling that distance produces roughly 473 kg CO2 by plane, 432 kg CO2 by car, or 88 kg CO2 by train.

For context: growing/producing 1kg of apples is estimated to generate roughly 0.43 kg CO2e in total (land use, farming, processing and packaging combined) - for most foods, that's far more than the transport emissions above. See what the research says about why what you eat usually matters more than how far it travelled. (Estimate for the closest matching category, Apples, not this exact product - source: Our World in Data, based on Poore & Nemecek 2018.)