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Tesco will offer products with carbon label
by Nina Gotzmannova

Climate change is a hot topic all around the world. People are worried about pollution, ozone hole and everything possible ruining the precious nature. Now Tesco will join the Carbon Trust, company created by UK government to help business organizations to reduce their emission of carbon dioxide into atmosphere. Tesco will measure the carbon footprints of several well picked products. They should measure about 30 products, divided into five categories, such as tomatoes, orange juice or light bulbs. In their wrapping will be included a carbon label, a sign which will show the amount of carbon footprint embodied in a product in bringing it into shelf. The less carbon footprint it is, the better. This carbon label is the world's firs carbon label and was brought to the market in March 2007. Since then companies like Walker Crisps, Innocent Smoothies or Boots plc shampoos have included the label into their products. The intention is to help companies about their decisions how to produce and what to bring to the customers, and also help customers to decide which product they want to pick up from the shelf and buy. It seems like the green issues and the number of people concerned about this topic is growing every day. The choices of a shopper are influenced by things like food miles, if the food was raised in an organic farm or whether is it local produced. Companies interested in having carbon labels on their products can do several things how to achieve that. Some of them are improving the energy efficiency and developing low carbon technology.

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by Nina Gotzmannova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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