A bag of household trash: carbon footprint

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🗑️Carbon footprintA bag of household trash

0.4kg CO₂e / kg

landfilling 1 kg

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A bag of household trash comes in at about 0.4 kg CO₂e / kg (landfilling 1 kg).

Of the 8 things you throw away Carbonle tracks, A bag of household trash sits at #6 from the lightest — one of the heaviest.

An average mixed bin: some of it rots, some just sits there.

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