What is the carbon footprint of the paper cones yarn is wound on?
Paper cones are small per kg of yarn, but a spinning mill uses millions. Weigh a cone, multiply by cones bought and use a paperboard factor from your supplier or a named database. Cones taken back and reused cut the figure.
Calculate
- Cone weight in grams.
- Cones bought per year, from invoices.
- Paperboard factor, labelled with source.
Which scope
Cones you buy are Category 1. Cones shipped to weavers go into their Scope 3 and, at end of life, your Category 12.
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 Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard
Last reviewed 2026-10-22.