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Cucumbers do not spontaneously emerge from the ground in an untouched rural idyll and teleport themselves to your supermarket. Putting a cucumber on the shelf o
by jdietrich 8y ago
Cucumbers do not spontaneously emerge from the ground in an untouched rural idyll and teleport themselves to your supermarket. Putting a cucumber on the shelf of your local supermarket produces about 1kg of CO2 emissions. Atmospheric CO2 isn't biodegradable.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901104000991 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S146290110...
- dd36 8y agoUmmm... this is about plastic waste not CO2 production. I agree that food can be better recycled into compost.