How did we come up with the calculation?
Well, According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency,
we found an estimate of carbon emission of a person from their vehicle usage, electricity bills and recycling.
The calculation for average emission of a vehicle of X miles is:
X miles * (1 gallon / 21.6 miles) * (19.6 CO2 / 1 gallon)
The calculation for electricity for X amount of dollars is:
X dollars * (1 kWh / 0.1188 dollars) * ((factor varying by region) CO2 / kWh)
For waste, the estimate is about 692 lbs of CO2 per person.
When a person recycles metal, we can subtract 89.38 lbs, 34.56 lbs when they are
recycling plastic. If they are recycling glass, subtract 25.39 lbs and if they are
recycling paper, subtract 113.14 lbs.
We hope you look at your numbers and continue to reduce carbon emission for the environment!
Did You Know?
The average of miles driven per day for a person in America is about 31.28 miles
The average monthly cost of natural gas per household of one person in America is about 43.61 dollars
According to the latest U.N. report, the world now has 80 billion people. Change of one individual's lifestyle might be miniscule. But what if everyone did change their lifestyle like you? Here is the graph of the difference that a change in lifestyle of collective people can bring.