What are the emissions from making gelatin?
Gelatin from bones or hides needs weeks of liming or acid treatment, then hot-water extraction, evaporation and drying. Steam for extraction and drying is the main energy use, so boiler fuel dominates. Add grid power, effluent treatment and the raw material.
Main sources
- Boiler fuel for extraction, evaporation and drying.
- Electricity for pumps, chillers and filters.
- Effluent treatment, which can release methane if anaerobic.
Raw material
Bones and hides are by-products of meat processing. State the allocation rule you used for them, because it changes the answer a lot.
What Senseible does here
Senseible reads the plant's electricity bills (CEA grid factor 0.710 kg CO2 per kWh, CO2 Baseline Database version 21.0) and fuel invoices (IPCC 2006 defaults) into a fingerprinted Scope 1 and 2 record, the plant-level input to a per-unit figure. Bought-in materials go to the supplier evidence trail; product reports are self-declared drafts.
Sources: GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, IPCC 2006 Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
Last reviewed 2026-10-22.