Office paper: carbon footprint

Office paper comes in at about 1.38 kg CO₂e / kg (landfilling 1 kg).

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

Dense paper, lots of it, all methane as it rots. The landfill heavyweight.

Compare with

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