Showing posts with label climate neutral supermarket. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Climate neutral, biological tomatoes at Dutch supermarket chain Dekamarkt

The supermarkets of Dekamarkt are the first ones in The Netherlands selling biological tomatoes. Dekamarkt is analyzing the assortment, composing a responsable assortment. The tomatoes are cultivated climate neutral because the total process of cultivation is followed.
Because of the use of a lot of artificial manure rivers in Southern America have a lot of water plants in the rivers. These are removed and put on the side of the river, this causes a high level of emissions. Now this biological garbage will be used as compost. The transformation of this compost results into “carbon credits”, these are used to compensate the emission of production, storage and transport of these tomatoes.
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