A plastic bottle: carbon footprint

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🧴Carbon footprintA plastic bottle

0.02kg CO₂e / kg

landfilling 1 kg

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A plastic bottle comes in at about 0.02 kg CO₂e / kg (landfilling 1 kg).

Of the 8 things you throw away Carbonle tracks, A plastic bottle sits at #1 from the lightest — one of the lightest.

Buried, plastic just sits there. Making it cost carbon; landfilling it barely adds any.

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