Cadbury Schweppes has intensified the carbon labelling debate by publishing the carbon footprint of one of its chocolate bars, as industry works to establish a common greenhouse gas labelling system. On its website, it claims a 49g bar of Cadbury Dairy Milk had a carbon footprint of 169g. It has broken this up across the production process & said the largest single source of emissions was milk used in the product, followed by in-house production at 20% & sugar 10%. Packaging contributed just 2% to the overall footprint. "What surprised us were the relatively large contributions of milk production towards our overall footprint & the smaller contributions of transportation, packaging & sugar production," said Cadbury. On the basis of the findings, the firm said it intended to work with its farmers to help them reduce the footprint of dairy production.
