Grass clippings: carbon footprint

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🌿Carbon footprintGrass clippings

0.14kg CO₂e / kg

landfilling 1 kg

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Grass clippings comes in at about 0.14 kg CO₂e / kg (landfilling 1 kg).

Of the 8 things you throw away Carbonle tracks, Grass clippings sits at #4 from the lightest — mid-pack.

Garden waste rots without air and gives off methane.

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