Food waste: carbon footprint

Food waste comes in at about 0.6 kg CO₂e / kg (landfilling 1 kg).

Of the 8 things you throw away Carbonle tracks, Food waste sits at #7 from the lightest — one of the heaviest.

The worst thing in your bin. Leftovers rot without air and belch methane.

Compare with

Figures from EPA WARM v15 (2019), landfilling pathway; public domain, licensed public domain.
How we get these numbers: Methodology.