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Mackerel Food Miles

How Far Has It Travelled?

In total "Mackerel" has been searched for 571 times. The total mileage contribution of this is 1,480,196 miles!

This means that the average distance is 2,592 miles - that's 36% closer than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, travelling that distance produces roughly 778 kg CO2 by plane, 710 kg CO2 by car, or 145 kg CO2 by train.

The Top 20 sources are shown below:

Country From # of checks
Denmark 125
United Kingdom 103
Norway 60
New Zealand 45
Thailand 23
Ireland 19
Portugal 16
Latvia 16
United States 13
China 13
Morocco 12
Poland 12
Iceland 10
France 6
Spain 6
Malaysia 5
Greenland 5
Cuba 4
Netherlands 4
Chile 4

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