Lunch Time! Approximately 1:30 pm. Here I am, excited to sit down to my delicious, healthy lunch I packed for today. I even packed vegetables today. I was feeling quite good about it all until I got to the end of my meal and realized how much packaging I had to throw out. I guess much of that could have been avoided by the use of reusable containers.
So to start with, I decided to look up how much that was costing me. The amount of energy used to package products obviously varies from one to another, but, according to Danielle Murray of Earth Policy Institute:
“Approximately twenty-three percent of the energy used in our food production system is allocated to processing and packaging food.”
Next I will look into how much energy is used to produce and transport the food I’m eating, and how this translates into oil consumption.