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the problem with carbon labeling

December 9, 2007 2 Comments

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A few days ago, I met the head of sustainability for a British retailer, and he said he was conflicted about carbon labeling.  There’s a big push here to add a numeric carbon footprint to all consumer products (starting with a big announcement from Tesco last year).  It seems like a good disclosure in spirit, and the sheer effort to measure the carbon footprint is a good thing, which leads to ideas on how to reduce that footprint. 

But, labeling on packaging is a complicated one for consumers.  For one thing, it’s confusing.  Do consumers really understand what a 75g carbon label on a bag of crisps means?  For another thing, it can create mixed messages like the one in this cartoon.

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  1. Anonymous says

    December 9, 2007 at 2:41 pm

    But how march carbon will generated figuring out all those carbon footprints?

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  2. Beth Nori says

    December 10, 2007 at 5:39 am

    Totally agree. I would actually REALLY like to know the carbon footprint of the products I buy, but you shouldn’t need an Advanced Math degree to figure it out. A while ago my husband suggested a really simple method of “scoring” a product… color coding, and a number coded from 1-5. Keep it simple and it might actually go mainstream! But since we can’t even do that with nutrition labels, I’m not sure we have a lot of hope.

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