Homework research?
For school, we're supposed to describe the journey of a given product from production to the supermarket. I've been given the product: freshly packaged berries. Now I have to describe the journey from harvest in South America (Peru, Chile) to arrival in the supermarket. I also have to explain what is environmentally unfriendly about the product's production and how it could be made more environmentally friendly (if possible, of course).
Unfortunately, after what I consider to be an extensive Google search, I haven't found any real sources on how the berries are grown, or whether they are already packaged in South America or whether they arrive in Germany unpackaged and are packaged here. I also haven't really found anything about the production of the plastic packaging.
I wanted to ask if anyone here could help me, as I'm starting to get really desperate and the deadline is getting closer and closer.
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So you found “gaaaarnix”? Well, not really credible…
What berries are they?
How long are the transport routes?
Are there any regional or European alternatives?
Does packaging offer alternatives?
…and if you don’t find exact numbers, compare at least qualitatively…
… is there seasonal differences in these points? …
Maybe this will help you.
https://www.wwwf-jugend.de/news/2151983
You will not have found any information about it because it is not an environment for the – probably – blueberries (hotberries) from Perufriendly There are aspects.
https://www.wmn.de/food/150-e-der-traurige-grund-warum-es-das-ganze-jahr-so-guenstige-heidelbeeren-gabe-id426757
So you could at most address the non-environmental aspects. This also includes the fact that blueberries (heatberries) are now available throughout the year in our grocery stores. At a price for which no local farmer can offer his fruit.
It is now possible to think about the season in which it is growing in Germany wild berries (from June to September). I remember late summer holidays in the 1970s when I went to the forest with my father and collected paganberries with him. These were poured into cow’s milk and eaten for dinner.
From the wild-growing blueberry from native forests to the cultivated culture diaperberry on German fields to the one from Peru was a long way.
An environmental aspect is therefore to eat fruit and vegetables when it is naturally harvestable. And to be limited to what comes from our regions with fresh fruit and vegetables, it can be as good as no one can imagine today.
Among these fruit varieties, of course, regional cultural distilleries may also be. For example, Beelitzer Spargelbauern (near Potsdam) extend their harvest season in which they cultivate the heather berry beside the asparagus.
If it’s not about the blueberries, take it as an example. You can apply it to as good as any mass product from Peru.
Greeting Matti