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Equivalency Results How are they calculated?

The sum of the greenhouse gas emissions 0.071 Metric Tons

you entered above is of Carbon Dioxide
Equivalent. This is equivalent to:

Greenhouse gas emissions from

0.015 173

Passenger Miles driven

vehicles driven by an average
-or-
for one year passenger
vehicle

CO2 emissions from

8 6.9

gallons of gallons of
gasoline diesel
-or- -or-
consumed consumed

77.3 0.0009

Pounds of coal tanker trucks'

burned worth of
-or- -or-
gasoline

0.008 0.012

homes' energy homes'

use for one electricity use
-or- -or-
year for one year

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0.0004 0.164

railcars' worth barrels of oil

of coal burned consumed
-or- -or-

2.9 0

propane coal-fired
cylinders used power plants
-or- -or-
for home in one year
barbeques

9,017

number of
smartphones
charged

Greenhouse gas emissions avoided by

0.025 0.004

Tons of waste Garbage

recycled trucks of
-or- -or-
instead of waste recycled
landfilled instead of
landfilled

3.1 0

trash bags of Wind turbines

waste recycled running for a
-or- -or-
instead of year
landfilled

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2.7

Incandescent
lamps switched
to LEDs

Carbon sequestered by

1.2 0.083

tree seedlings acres of U.S.

grown for 10 forests in one
-or- -or-
years year

0.0006

acres of U.S.
forests
preserved from
conversion to
cropland in one
year

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