A simple A to E scale, giving products one easy to spot rating. This kind of system is already in use for outdoor equipment at a large retailer in the UK.<\/p><\/div>\n
Producers would need to be provided with simple tools and guidelines to help calculate the impacts of their product.<\/p>\n
Smaller, local producers may find favour in this system. Due to reduced food miles, their Carbon measure should be comparatively lower than international producers.<\/p>\n
Lots of research exists on this topic. It needs a brave decision from policy makes to implement the research. Is this something we in Wales can lead the way on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In 2008 The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee published a report on environmental labelling. Since then, little has been done. While food labelling for nutrition has made great progress in the UK, environmental labelling has fallen by the wayside. If consumers are to make informed choices, they need information. Producers already provide nutritional information, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119],"tags":[122,78,121,120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.llangollenfoe.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}