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Carbonstop calculates carbon emission reduction for Clear Plate

  • Date: 2020-08-24
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Recently, Carbonstop cooperated with ‘Clear Plate’ to jointly research and develop the accounting method of Clean Plate action carbon emission reduction. After scientific calculation, each clear plate operation can reduce the average of about 147 grams of carbon emissions. Up to now, there are 1 million users who have clocked in, and nearly 5 million clocked in times, resulting in a total of about 7,435 tons of carbon emission reduction. The accounting mainly takes into account the reasonable selection/consumption of the right amount of food, so as not to produce the reduction of emissions resulting from food waste. Emissions from residual food waste disposal are not only considered, but also from food growing/farming, production, processing and transportation, and consumption.

On Aug 11, Xi Jinping, general secretary of CPC, issued an important directive on curbing food waste. He pointed out that food waste phenomenon, shocking, painful! ‘Who knows the food on the plate, every grain is hard.’ Although China has had bumper harvests in grain production in successive years, we still need to be aware of the crisis of food security. The impact of COVID-19 epidemic in the world this year is a wake-up call for us.

Some data shows:

- One-third of the world's food intended for human consumption is lost and wasted, an estimated 1.3 billion tons of food is lost and wasted globally each year (FAO).

- China's catering industry wastes 93 grams of food per person per meal per person, with a waste rate of 11.7%. The waste of large parties reaches 38%. One-third of students' packed lunches are thrown away (Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences &WWF).

- It is currently estimated that nearly 690 million people, or 8.9 per cent of the world population, are hungry, an increase of 10 million in one year and nearly 60 million in five years (FAO).

- In 2019, nearly 750 million people worldwide, or nearly one-tenth of the world's population (FAO), face severe food insecurity.

The food system is responsible for about 30 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions and is a major driver of land use change (deforestation) and biodiversity loss, as well as a major user and polluter of scarce water resources.

Clear Plate action, rewards for clocking in -- Clear Plate is an app dedicated to reducing food waste, which rewards points for taking pictures of the "Clear Plate" after a meal and identifying it through AI intelligence. Points can be exchanged for a large number of good quality goods, can also be donated to public welfare projects. By the time the article was written, it had more than 1.07 million users and was on its way to reaching 5 million ‘Clear Plate.

The cooperation with Clear Plate is a new kind of low carbon scenario mining and calculation. Identifying each low-carbon scenario and quantifying the individual's contribution to greenhouse gas emission reduction is difficult to understand in terms of abstract concepts, but as the public's awareness of low carbon increases, tools and information such as carbon emission reduction will be a record and witness of individual environmental actions. Many small make a great,