A ceramic mug: carbon footprint
Carbonle#4 of 16☕Carbon footprintA ceramic mug
0.75kg CO₂e
one mug, fired
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A ceramic mug comes in at about 0.75 kg CO₂e (one mug, fired).
Of the 16 things you buy Carbonle tracks, A ceramic mug sits at #4 from the lightest — one of the lightest.
This is the one-off cost of making the thing, before you use it. It's why a reusable tote only wins after many trips, and why a phone's footprint is the factory, not the charger.
Firing clay in a kiln is hot, energy-hungry work.
Compare with
Figures from openLCA ceramic-cup case study (2019), licensed estimate.
How we get these numbers: Methodology.