Waste Disposal Route Factors

139 waste disposal route factors held in the GreenCalculus MasterBrain, drawn from UK DEFRA/DESNZ 2026. 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.

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.

Say, Jeremiah (2026). Waste Disposal Route Factors (MasterBrain v2026.110). GreenCalculus. 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 — BibTeX, then RIS:

@misc{greencalculus_waste_disposal_2026,
  author       = {Say, Jeremiah},
  title        = {Waste Disposal Route Factors},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {GreenCalculus},
  note         = {MasterBrain v2026.110},
  url          = {https://greencalculus.com/factors/waste-disposal-route-factors/}
}

TY  - DATA
AU  - Say, Jeremiah
TI  - Waste Disposal Route Factors
PY  - 2026
PB  - GreenCalculus
ET  - MasterBrain v2026.110
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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 the same rows as a spreadsheet — every factor 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

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