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L Food Miles

How Far Has It Travelled?

In total "L" has been searched for 1,175 times. The total mileage contribution of this is 5,036,067 miles!

This means that the average distance is 4,286 miles - that's 5% further than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, travelling that distance produces roughly 1286 kg CO2 by plane, 1174 kg CO2 by car, or 240 kg CO2 by train.

The Top 20 sources are shown below:

Country From # of checks
Spain 63
New Zealand 59
Italy 48
United States 48
Australia 45
China 45
France 28
India 27
United Kingdom 26
Brazil 25
Afghanistan 24
Argentina 24
Netherlands 23
Mexico 23
Egypt 21
South Africa 20
Canada 17
Germany 17
Aruba 16

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