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Environmental Impact Assessment Matrix

| |Pre-production |Production |Distribution |Utilisation |Disposal |
| | | | | |Water used to flush the toilet |
|Water Relevance |Consumption of 1381.3 litres of |No significant consumption of |No significant impact | |Water used to recycle the paper |
| |water per burger |water | | | |
| |Possible impact of using | | | | |
|Soil Pollution |fertilizers and pesticides, |No significant soil pollution |No significant soil pollution | |Pollution if the packaging ends on|
| |Overconsumption of soils leads to | | | |landfill |
| |loss of soil fertility | | | | |
|Air Contamination | | | |
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