Waste Disposal Route Factors

409 waste disposal route factors held in the GreenCalculus MasterBrain, drawn from 6 named sources, each listed with its publisher and licence under Sources below. Values are read live from the data layer on every page build, so nothing here is re-typed and nothing can drift from the figures the calculators use. All are expressed in kg CO2e per tonne.

Where these factors are used

Waste Disposal Route Emissions and Landfill Gas and Wastewater Treatment Emissions set out how factors in this group are applied, and Scope 3 Cat 5 Waste by Disposal Route Calculator and IT Asset & E-Waste Lifecycle Emissions Calculator draw on them directly. Each value below names the upstream source it came from.

What this group contains

Figures are computed per unit and never blended: a median across different units would be arithmetically valid and physically meaningless. 1 further unit in this group has fewer than 3 factors and is counted above but not described.

What has changed

Sources, citation & machine access

Cite the upstream publisher for the values themselves. The reference below credits this compilation and, more usefully, pins the edition you read.

GreenCalculus. (2026). Waste Disposal Route Factors (MasterBrain v2026.284). Numbers Publishing Pte. Ltd. https://greencalculus.com/factors/waste-disposal-route-factors/

Cite this factor group

Values change between editions. Quoting the MasterBrain version is what lets a reader resolve the exact number you used. See the change record above for factors in this group that have moved.

For a reference manager, in BibTeX then RIS:

@misc{greencalculus_waste_disposal_2026,
  author       = {{GreenCalculus}},
  title        = {Waste Disposal Route Factors},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {GreenCalculus},
  publisher    = {Numbers Publishing Pte. Ltd.},
  note         = {MasterBrain v2026.284},
  url          = {https://greencalculus.com/factors/waste-disposal-route-factors/}
}

TY  - DATA
AU  - GreenCalculus
TI  - Waste Disposal Route Factors
PY  - 2026
DB  - GreenCalculus
PB  - Numbers Publishing Pte. Ltd.
ET  - MasterBrain v2026.284
UR  - https://greencalculus.com/factors/waste-disposal-route-factors/
ER  - 

Every factor on this page is readable from the open endpoint. No key, no signup:

https://greencalculus.com/wp-json/greencalculus/v1/factors/waste_disposal

curl -s "https://greencalculus.com/wp-json/greencalculus/v1/factors/waste_disposal?limit=500"

import requests
rows = requests.get("https://greencalculus.com/wp-json/greencalculus/v1/factors/waste_disposal", params={"limit": 500}).json()["factors"]
print(len(rows), "factors in waste_disposal")

Or as a spreadsheet: 378 of the 409 rows on this page, each with its source, the edition it last changed in, and its own link:

https://greencalculus.com/wp-json/greencalculus/v1/factors-export?page=waste-disposal-route-factors

Download this table as CSV

The download leaves out 31 rows from NL_CO2EMISSIEFACTOREN_2026, whose terms do not give us the right to pass their figures on in a file. They stay on this page, each beside its source, and in the endpoint above, where every row carries licence.redistributable. The per-publisher terms are on the sources register.

Both responses carry an X-GC-Version header, so a consumer can detect a new edition without diffing the payload. The CSV filename carries the edition too, so two downloads months apart do not collide.

All factors

Last changed names the data-layer edition in which a factor last took a new value, reconstructed from every released edition since v2025.13. A dash means the value has not moved since tracking began, which is the answer to "is the figure I used last year still current?".

Common questions