What makes up the carbon footprint of a television?

For a TV, the display panel and electronics usually carry most of the manufacturing footprint, and electricity used over years of viewing can be larger still. Report assembly in Scope 1 and 2, bought panels and boards in Category 1, and use in Category 11.

Manufacturing

• Display panel and backlight, usually bought in.
• Main board, power board and chips.
• Plastic or metal housing, stand and packaging.
• Assembly and testing electricity.

Use phase

Estimate use as rated power × hours a day × days × years, using a stated grid factor. State your assumptions, because hours of viewing change the result a lot.

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.

• Refrigerator footprint
• PCB assembly footprint
• Product carbon footprint calculator

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.