date:Sep 06, 2012
analyse emissions from chicken, peas, carrots, and roast potato cold chains. Under investigation were: primary food processing, transport and storage, retail storage, storage in the home, refrigerant loss throughout the cold chain, consumer transport (from supermarket to home), consumer meal preparation and cooking, and processing and consumer food waste.
The study found emissions for a chilled meal for four people was equivalent to 6.546kg CO2, compared with a frozen meal for four at 6.329kg C