A flat-screen TV: carbon footprint

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📺Carbon footprintA flat-screen TV

350kg CO₂e

one large TV, made

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A flat-screen TV comes in at about 350 kg CO₂e (one large TV, made).

Of the 16 things you buy Carbonle tracks, A flat-screen TV sits at #16 from the lightest — one of the heaviest.

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.

The panel and electronics make a big screen one of the heaviest things to build.

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Figures from LCD/LED display LCA, Int. J. LCA (2011), licensed peer-reviewed.
How we get these numbers: Methodology.