What is the carbon footprint of an electric iron?
Making it is small next to using it: years of heating at a typical 750 to 2,000 watts use far more electricity than making the soleplate, heater and plastic body. Report assembly in Scope 1 and 2, parts in Category 1, and customers' electricity in Category 11.
Use phase
Estimate rated power × hours of use a week × weeks × years of life × a stated grid factor. State each assumption.
Manufacturing
- Soleplate, often aluminium.
- Heating element and thermostat.
- Plastic body and cord.
- Assembly and testing electricity.
What Senseible does here
Senseible reads your electricity bills, fuel invoices and purchase invoices into dated, fingerprinted records, so a per unit footprint can be traced back to the documents behind it. Estimates are labelled as estimates.
Sources: GHG Protocol Product Standard, GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard, ISO 14067:2018, Carbon footprint of products (iso.org)
Last reviewed 2026-10-22.