The carbon footprint of Soy milk
🌿Carbonle#11 of 43
🥤Carbon footprintSoy milk
0.98kg CO₂e / kg
Same as a 6 km drive · 2× a kilo of apples
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A kilogram of Soy milk works out to about 0.98 kg CO₂e (kg CO₂e / kg).
That lands it #11 of the 43 foods on Carbonle, one of the lightest.
The number is a farm-to-shop average. It counts land use, growing, feed, processing, transport, retail and packaging, with methane folded in as its CO₂ equivalent.
Call it 2 times a kilo of apples (0.43 kg).
Growing a kilo throws off about as much CO₂ as a 6 km drive in a diesel car.
Tofu and soy milk hand you protein at a fraction of beef's footprint. The swap that actually moves the needle.
Eat it freely. This is the kind of food a low-carbon plate is built on.
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Figures from OWID / Poore & Nemecek 2018, licensed CC-BY 4.0.
How we get these numbers: Methodology.