This restaurant in Canada tells you the carbon footprint of each menu item
Canadian restaurant Highlevel Diner is creating a unique dining experience: customers can now see the carbon footprint of the meal they're eating.
The Edmonton brunch place has teamed up with a local non-profit organization — Northern Climate Stewardship & Sustainability — to create the environmentally-friendly menu.
Each carbon footprint was calculated by how the food was produced, transported, and then cooked at the restaurant.
The menus launched earlier this week.
Unsurprisingly, burgers and meat pies — which typically have a larger carbon footprint than plants, fruits and vegetables — are the biggest offenders.
The Spinach Pie, for example, has a carbon footprint of 0.88 CO2e, while the Guinness Cottage Pie clocks in at 4.62 CO2e — more than four times the amount of carbon emissions.
The NCSSS says that their goal is to "encourage Highlevel Diner restaurant patrons to make low carbon food choices and reduce their carbon footprints."
After a period of time, the organization will review diners' orders in the hope that patrons of Highlevel Diner begin to choose more sustainable meals.
The Canadian diner has shown a long-term interest in sustainability, having banned plastic straws in April 2018.
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