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In the limited amount of experience I’ve had with researching these things, embodied carbon can be a much higher number than you might think, even with somethin
by doctorhandshake 1y ago
In the limited amount of experience I’ve had with researching these things, embodied carbon can be a much higher number than you might think, even with something as simple as a cotton t-shirt. Odds are that shirt had already sailed around the world once or twice by the time you buy it, and it might make its way to another continent once you’re done with it as well.
- sailingparrot 1y ago> Odds are that shirt had already sailed around the world once or twice by the time you buy it, That's like... 40 grams of CO2 for those 2 trips for a t-shirt. Aka, a 2 min uber ride. Shipping containers are incredibly efficient. Modern large container ships consume about 200-300 tonnes of fuel per day, and could carry 742 millions t-shirts [1]. It takes 16 days to do something like Shanghai - LA, so that ends up being like 20 grams per shirt per trip. [1]: https://www.howandwhy.com/15-mins/huge-ship-shirts https://www.howandwhy.com/15-mins/huge-ship-shirts
- doctorhandshake 1y agoI did make it sound like transport was contributing to the lion’s share of the embodied carbon and I shouldn’t have - it’s more in the production process. Would have been well served by an ‘in addition’ in between those statements.
- sailingparrot 1y agoFair, didn’t mean to strawman.