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L Food Miles

How Far Has It Travelled?

In total "L" has been searched for 1,166 times. The total mileage contribution of this is 5,015,190 miles!

This means that the average distance is 4,301 miles - that's 6% further than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, travelling that distance produces roughly 1290 kg CO2 by plane, 1178 kg CO2 by car, or 241 kg CO2 by train.

The Top 20 sources are shown below:

Country From # of checks
Spain 63
New Zealand 58
United States 48
Italy 45
Australia 45
China 45
France 28
India 27
United Kingdom 26
Brazil 25
Argentina 24
Afghanistan 24
Netherlands 23
Mexico 23
Egypt 21
South Africa 19
Canada 17
Aruba 16
Germany 16

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