A glass bottle: carbon footprint
Carbonle#2 of 8🍾Carbon footprintA glass bottle
0.02kg CO₂e / kg
landfilling 1 kg
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A glass bottle comes in at about 0.02 kg CO₂e / kg (landfilling 1 kg).
Of the 8 things you throw away Carbonle tracks, A glass bottle sits at #2 from the lightest — one of the lightest.
Inert in a landfill, like plastic. Recycling is where glass actually pays off.
Compare with
Figures from EPA WARM v15 (2019), landfilling pathway; public domain, licensed public domain.
How we get these numbers: Methodology.