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Your Product
Spaghetti
Barilla · Loblaws Maple Leaf Gardens
Score
58
Out-of-Pocket
$4.09
Externality
$1.12
True Cost
$5.21
Organics Spaghettini
PC Organics · Superstore Stockyards
Organic Whole Wheat Penne
Compliments · Sobeys Queen West
Organic Quinoa Fusilli
GoGo Quinoa · Whole Foods Yorkville
Linguine No. 13
Rummo · Loblaws Maple Leaf Gardens
Hidden Cost Breakdown
Hidden Environmental Costs
Society pays the other $1.12 through healthcare, environmental remediation, and ecosystem damage
Data Sources & References
• Carbon Price: Government of Canada — Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, federal carbon price schedule ($110/tonne in 2026, rising to $170 by 2030)
• Lifecycle Estimates: Google Gemini 2.5 Flash API with grounded search — estimates CO₂, water, and land use per product unit
• Water Scarcity: Provincial watershed stress assessments — multipliers from 1.0x (low stress) to 4.0x (very high stress)
• Packaging Costs: Material-specific environmental cost rates — landfill penalty (2.5x) based on your municipal recycling program
• Land Use: Commodity-specific deforestation and habitat conversion cost rates based on global supply chain impact assessments
• Recyclability: Municipal blue-box accepted materials lists for your postal code area