Olive oil

Oil can reach us from the olive peasants via the agricultural cooperative where they are incorporated; in Spain a 33% of the oil is produced by agricultural cooperatives and the rest by enterprises. The cooperative where there is the mill, extracts the oil, packages it and sells it, either at the very same place (then it is called agrarian shops) or at other shops. Buying at the agrarian shops let us know in a very direct way the origin of the nourishment we are consuming and to enhance the rural world.

How can we do it

We go to an olive yard zone at harvest time (between November and January, it varies somewhat from year to year) and we look for some agrarian cooperative, there are usually some of them. At many of them they will let us take a walk at the mill zone and will show us how they are making the extraction. We can buy there the oil for all the year.

In Spain, France, Italy, Greece and Slovenia, the Protected Origin Denominations and the Protected Geographical Indicator identify products that cannot be produced with the same characteristics elsewhere than in the zone indicated by the DOP or IGP. Let us buy oil that offers us guarantees of quality and origin.

How can we do it

We can identify the ecological oil by its European label or other certifying entities of different countries.
The virgin olive oils have to indicate on their label where they come from and the origin denomination if it is established. In Italy, almost a half of the products with Origin Denomination are oils.

Waste is ever-increasing all over the world and few of it is recyclable. It is necessary to reduce as much as we can the use of packaging, mainly of materials more difficult to recycle.

How can we do it

Let us take packaging as big as possible. Glass and can are better than plastic (besides it is less recyclable, it is permeable to odours), and plastic better than "tetrabric".
In the ecological production "tetrabric" is forbidden and plastic can only be used for packaging 5 litres or more.

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Data d'actualització: 10/06/2010 - 19:28