Bad sandwich!

For sure it happened to everybody to arrive at home in the evening and to find that the fridge is totally empty, to have finished the stock of Bivo and to ask ourself what to eat for dinner. One of the most popular solution is making ourself a sandwich (after of course going to www.bivo.it/en and ordering the new packets of Bivo).

You just need to search for some bread, and be creative using whatever you can find in the fridge and shelves…here you are with a “great” tuna, cheese and mustard sandwich. 🙂

If you did something like that then you did a good deed, saving some food from going to the waste bin: fighting food waste is also this…but not every sandwich is good for the Planet.

Manchester University sent out a cry of alarm about sandwiches and this time not because of their low nutritional value, but because of their high environmental impact.

This study shows that 11.5 billion sandwiches produced in the UK in a single year generates the same amount of carbon dioxide produced by 9 million cars in the same period. The group of researchers have examined 40 different types of sandwiches, both from fast food restaurant and home made: the result is not different. The most polluting sandwich contains eggs, bacon and sausages and produces (in addition to unhealthy effects on our body in the  long run) the same amount of CO2 generated to cover 20 km with a car. The team of researchers have analysed all the necessary phases for the production of the sandwich: from cultivation of the different ingredients, to transportation, to packaging, and finally to the disposal of the waste. The result is that the habit of a meal at a fast food restaurant or the laziness of a quick dinner at home with an tempting sandwich risk causing an environmental effect that we cannot even imagine…The aspect that leave us more stunned, but that can give some hope to the sandwich lovers who care for the Planet, is that it could be enough to change the packaging and how we dispose the waste of the sandwiches to reduce by 50% the CO2 emissions…Let’s think about how much we could lower the emissions if between the two slices of bread we put seasonal produces from our lands.

This is because not only sandwiches pollute: a bad modern habit is also to consume off-season food. Eating cherries in winter is not only expensive but seriously damages the health of the Earth. A kilogram of cherries from Chile to reach our fridge has to travel for 12 thousand km burning almost 7 kg of oil: such an absurdity if we can just wait the right time to enjoy our delicious cherries from Marostica (20 km far away from Vicenza, Bivo’s headquarters). No?

Hereby you can find the complete article by the Manchester University on the pollution caused by the production of sandwiches:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352550917300635?via%3Dihub

For the complete chart of the most polluting food made by Coldiretti visit:

https://www.greenme.it/mangiare/altri-alimenti/13467-cibi-piu-inquinanti-estero-coldiretti