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John Stumbles wrote:
True - but no one site can possibly have accurate figures on this. You
can make an educated guess yourself.

I can guess that something made in China has a bigger carbon footprint
than the same thing made in the UK because of transposrt but what about
the CO2 cost of plastic A versus plastic B and so on - there must be
zillions of things you'd have to be a FoE mastermind to make a remotely
accurate 'educated' guess at.

Indeed; and this applies to the websites which claim to do just this.

My point was that most who want this sort of information don't actually
know (or want to understand) what the plate on an appliance means where
watts are concerned. And this site

http://www.carbonbalanced.org/sms/te...on-offsets.htm

is a prime example of over simplification.

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