Four ways to reduce the carbon in your shopping

How does your food shop affect the planet? Well, think of it like this – consuming just one egg emits between 260g and 330g of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

That is because before that egg can reach your plate, animal feed has to be produced and delivered to the hen that laid it. That hen then needs heating pumped into the shed it shares with the other hens in the farm, and their eggs have to be transported, often by van, to the shop you buy them from, where they are stored in refrigerators. There is also the packaging that must be made to store the eggs and the process of cooking them to consider.