What is the carbon footprint of a piece of Bidri ware?
Bidri ware is cast from a zinc and copper alloy, inlaid with silver and blackened. Most of the footprint is the metal: the zinc and silver you buy. The casting furnace fuel and polishing power are your own Scope 1 and 2. Weigh each piece to share metal by weight.
Main sources
- Zinc and copper for the alloy, and silver wire or sheet for inlay.
- Fuel for melting and casting.
- Electricity for buffing and engraving tools.
How to share it
Total the month's metal and fuel, then divide by kilograms of finished pieces. A heavier vase carries more than a small box.
What Senseible does here
Senseible reads the energy invoices behind the making stage into a fingerprinted Scope 1 and 2 record, and keeps material invoices on the Scope 3 trail. Material factors come from your supplier or a named database and are labelled with their source, so the product figure can be traced line by line.
Sources: GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard
Last reviewed 2026-10-22.