UK Retailer Tesco To Display Carbon Footprints On Milk

vIndianz.com (Aug. 19, 2009) — UK based retailer has displayed the full carbon footprint of milk, is one of the top selling products in the market. It has been found that methane from cows account for the biggest proportion of carbon footprint.

A carbon footprint is the total set of GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, organization, event or product.

From now, all Tesco own-label milk products will display the carbon footprint label as part of an on-going drive to help shoppers make “green” purchasing decisions.

Tesco is going to do this labeling on all the 500 products available in the supermarket. But this new labeling will not apply to organic milk because it has less greenhouse effect.

Tesco is already working towards for the reduction of these emissions along with the dairy industry and farmers through the Tesco Sustainable Dairy Group and also the Dairy Centre of Excellence at the University of Liverpool.

The Carbon Trust is working with Dairy UK to help the milk industry understand more about its carbon footprints as a route to greater reductions in emissions.

An individual, nation, or organization’s carbon footprint is measured by undertaking a GHG emissions assessment. Once the size of a carbon footprint is known, a strategy can be devised to reduce it.

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