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Monday, 1 February 2010

CARBON FOOTPRINTS OF DIFFERENT DRINKS

Wine has a carbon footprint 6.5 times that of bottled water, according to recent research by Nestlé Waters. Its figures are in grams of CO2 equivalent per litre.

Product	Grams	Index
Bottled water	340	100
Soft drink	510	150
Beer	910	268
Milk	1200	353
Fruit juice	1200	353
Wine	2200	647

Across the European Union, apparently, bottled water accounts for 17% of beverage consumption, but only 8% of beverage greenhouse gas emissions.

3 comments:

Herman said...: Interesting data! I'd like to know the method of measuring the carbon footprints of those different drinks. Were the whole value chain processes (material sourcing, production process, packaging, transportation, etc) taken into account in the measurement? Thanks.; 1 February 2010 16:03
Richard Hall said...: I believe so. The data sources given were: RDC – Global Environmental Footprint (BW)/Ecointesys 2009 (other beverages).; 2 February 2010 09:02
Anonymous said...: checkout new www.myvitiwater.com; 4 February 2010 10:07

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Richard Hall is an acknowledged expert on the international food and drinks sector, chairing and speaking at numerous industry conferences as well as offering independent comment on bevblog.net.

With a degree in Economics and Government from the University of Bath, where he was also Students’ Union President, he worked in the Group Commercial Department of UK dairy market leader Unigate before joining the Dairy Trade Federation as Economic Adviser.

In five years as a Director of the Dairy Trade Federation, he also served as its Head of Public Relations and as Secretary General of the European Federation of Dairy Retailers. From 1987 to 1990 he was Director and General Manager of beverage market consultancy Canadean.

He formed Zenith International in 1991 as a specialist business consultancy for the food and drink industries. The company now has 50 staff working for more than 1,000 clients in over 50 countries. It provides a full range of consulting and market information services.

He also chairs FoodBev Media Ltd, which he founded in 2000. Its team of 30 staff publishes five business journals and manages the foodbev.com website.
In 2006 Richard completed two years as Chairman of the Bath City of Festivals Steering Group, after two previous years as President of Bath Chamber of Commerce. He is currently Chairman of the Bath & North East Somerset Quartet Community Foundation, Chairman of the Bath & North East Somerset Public Realm Events Panel, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Institute of Directors.