Carbon calculator for school food sector launched
LACA, the school food people has produced a carbon calculator, called Meal Analyser, specially aimed at the school food sector.
The meal analyser, established with the University of Edinburgh Business School, LM3 and ASSIST FM, allows any organisation running a meal service to calculate the annual carbon and economic impacts of that service.
It will show where carbon emissions are coming from, and how they compare across different types of food, transport and disposal. This will provide you with a benchmark to let you improve in the future.
The assumptions underlying the calculator are taken from detailed analysis of five school food services across England and Scotland. A report has been published that shows the outcomes of this analysis.
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