> Odds are that shirt had already sailed around the world once or twice by the time you buy it,
That's like... 40 grams of CO2 for those 2 trips for a t-shirt. Aka, a 2 min uber ride.
Shipping containers are incredibly efficient.
Modern large container ships consume about 200-300 tonnes of fuel per day, and could carry 742 millions t-shirts [1]. It takes 16 days to do something like Shanghai - LA, so that ends up being like 20 grams per shirt per trip.
I did make it sound like transport was contributing to the lion’s share of the embodied carbon and I shouldn’t have - it’s more in the production process. Would have been well served by an ‘in addition’ in between those statements.
That's like... 40 grams of CO2 for those 2 trips for a t-shirt. Aka, a 2 min uber ride.
Shipping containers are incredibly efficient.
Modern large container ships consume about 200-300 tonnes of fuel per day, and could carry 742 millions t-shirts [1]. It takes 16 days to do something like Shanghai - LA, so that ends up being like 20 grams per shirt per trip.
[1]: https://www.howandwhy.com/15-mins/huge-ship-shirts