Where a mango's carbon comes from
11.7
kg CO₂e / kg
98% is the flight
✈️ Flown in98%
🌱 Growing it1%
📦 Packaging1%
An air-freighted mango, on a European shelf.
Flown-in fruit carries the plane, not the farm. An air-freighted mango runs about 11.7 kg CO₂e per kilo, roughly the footprint of pork, and almost all of it is the flight. Shipped by sea, the same fruit would be a fraction of that.
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