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My favorite example of this is trucks transporting Finnish bottled water to France and then bringing French bottled water back.


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Ekaros10/02/2024

Reminds me of getting can of S.Pellegrino water with something in it. Looked at back of the can and wondered why is this in Japanese... So my guess is that it was first made in Italy, then shipped to Japan and then imported back to Finland...

One starts to question sanity of our consumption habits at times. I am no way environmentalist, but this sort of stuff just seems waste of energy inputs.

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