Cheese

Big cheese with less plastic or less cheese with more plastic. Photo: SVT

In one hand you hold 150 grams of sliced ​​cheese, where the packaging is made of 11 grams of plastic. In the other hand, you keep a cheese of 700 grams, the packaging consists of 6 grams of plastic, per kilo of cheese it means eleven times more plastic.

Climate winner : Studies show that we often throw away some of the bigger cheese. It is enough that we throw two slices of the big cheese in order to make the climate impression as big as we do with the extra plastic on the smaller cheese. The smaller cheese with more plastic is thus climate winner if you eat everything up.

Cucumber

Cucumber with or without plastic? Photo: Fredrik Sandberg, TT

You think cucumber is good to have on your breakfast but you have a hard time catching up whole before it gets bad.

Climate Winner: The plastic around the cucumber increases the shelf life by about six days, if you can't eat the whole cucumber before it becomes bad, the cucumber with plastic is preferred.

Bread

Photo: Leif R Jansson, TT

In one hand you hold a bread loaf with 700 grams of bread, until 8 grams of plastic is needed, in the other hand you hold half the amount of bread. Per kilo of bread, 60 percent more plastic goes to the small package.

The Climate Winner: Bread is a food waste problem as consumers throw out about 30 percent of the bread they buy. You only have to throw a tenth of a loaf of bread to match the increased amount of plastic needed to make the small package.

Minced meat

Photo: Claudio Bresciani, TT

In the store you will find a tube of minced meat, the packaging contains 15 grams less plastic than a regular tray of minced meat.

Climate winner: Minced meat on a tube has been launched as an attempt to reduce the amount of plastic in the packaging. But when Helén Williams examined them, she saw that there was some minced meat left in the packaging and the 5 grams that remained gave a greater environmental impact than the extra material for the trough. So here is the sluggish climate winner because it is easier to get all minced meat.