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ericd 6 hours ago

But to put this in context, the average American family’s carbon footprint per year is roughly 50,000 kg, and one flight is usually on the order of >1,000 kg, or ~300kg/700 pounds of milk, assuming that 3kg CO2 per kg milk high end figure. So if you like milk, there are probably other places you can cut first.

Does seem like a lot of carbon for a kg of plastic, though, how does that compare to normal plastic’s carbon footprint?

beAbU 6 hours ago | parent [-]

>... >1,000 kg, or 700 pounds of milk

Why do you mix your units like that.

ericd 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Because I'm American, so I use metric in scientific contexts, and weird medieval units in everyday ones :-)

I'll edit a bit for clarity for you all who live in more consistent places.

beAbU 23 minutes ago | parent [-]

I'm not above asking the barber to leave an inch on the top, but then I'm not going to ask him to leave 15mm on the sides. At least keep the system consistent within a sentence :)