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Emission factor from WARM v16

Desktop CPUs - Landfilling, No Recovery

United States · End of life · Any year

Each kilogram of this waste sent to landfill counts as 0.0223 kg CO₂e: 0.0223 for GHG Emissions From Transportation, 0 for net Carbon Storage and 0 for net GHG Emissions from CH4 Generation.

Value for 2023, landfill route

0.0223kgCO₂e/kg

Net total: fossil, biogenic and land use · GWP100 · AR4

FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂full carbon balance

One value, for any year

WARM sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.

Reference year 2023

Region
United States US
Boundary
End of life
Data quality
MediumRated by us, not by the source
Licence
Open · WARM terms

Where 0.0223 comes from

Σ 0.0223: the three parts add up to WARM's published total.

Reporting this kilogram under the GHG Protocol

Scope 3, category 5 0.0223

Paying for your own waste to be treated is category 5, waste generated in operations, counted in the period you send it.

Outside the scopes, reported separately No credit

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What this number covers

The path of one kilogram of waste from your bin to the landfill. Every step on it is counted.

  1. GHG Emissions From Transportation

    Included0.0223

  2. Net Carbon Storage

    Included0

  3. Net GHG Emissions from CH4 Generation

    Included0

  4. A credit for recovery

    Energy or material won back from the waste would belong to its next use

    Outside, none published

  5. Your waste

    1 kg sent to landfill, weighed as you hand it over.

    = 0.0223

Outside this boundary

  • Producing the raw material
  • Making the product that became waste
  • Secondary material reprocessing

WARM's waste rule: the haul in, no credit. Making the product is its own factor.

Gases

WARM publishes this factor as CO₂e only, with no split by gas. The CO₂e counts fossil, biogenic and land-use carbon together.

The total and its parts

Each part has its own page, with its own years and source record. Never add a part to the total.

You are here · the totalDesktop CPUs, landfilling, No Recovery, end of life0.0223
GHG Emissions From TransportationScope 3, cat. 50.0223100% of the totalOpenNet Carbon StorageScope 3, cat. 500% of the totalOpenNet GHG Emissions from CH4 GenerationScope 3, cat. 500% of the totalOpen

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Waste treatment › Landfill · United States · per kg · Average

End of life · Net total · AR4

Boundary
End of life
Inbound transport and end of life
GWP method
IPCC AR4, 100-year horizon
As printed by WARM
CO₂e basis
Net totalFossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂full carbon balance
Not split by gas; CO₂e only
Life cycle
Upstream: not coveredProduction: not coveredDownstream: not coveredEnd of life: partly covered

Medium quality · Open licence · Any year

From WARM's record to a comparable factor

WARM publishes this factor as one record with three sub-lines. Here is each field as printed and what open-climate.ai made of it.

About this factor

WARM gives no description for this factor. Filed under Electronics › Desktop CPUs.

Source and licence

Publisher
U.S. EPA Waste Reduction Model (WARM)
Library
WARM v16
Published
1 December 2023
Public domain (US government work) Open

The values and their metadata are served in full and may be reused with credit to the publisher.

Credit it with this lineU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Waste Reduction Model (WARM) version 16
A plain reading of the licence, not legal advice. The licence text prevails.

Cite this factor

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Waste Reduction Model (WARM) version 16. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/epa_warm/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-epawarm-desktop_cpus_landfilling-us-kg-end_of_life-df360f0c/?v=efv1-57915913349e248b6408bc581a80932b

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