What is the carbon footprint of a tube of silicone sealant?
Most of a sealant tube's footprint is the silicone polymer and fillers, made upstream with energy-heavy silicon metal. Mixing and filling at your plant add electricity. Weigh the sealant and the plastic cartridge, then use supplier or named database factors.
Parts of the figure
- Silicone polymer and fillers: largest share.
- Plastic cartridge and nozzle.
- Mixing and filling electricity.
Ask suppliers
A polymer supplier's figure per kg beats a generic one. Label each factor with its source.
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, GHG Protocol Corporate Standard
Last reviewed 2026-10-22.