# How does a Ludhiana hosiery unit work out carbon per garment?

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Add electricity and fuel emissions for the month and divide by pieces made, for the making stage. Woollen and acrylic yarn bought in usually carries more and sits in Scope 3; add it from supplier figures per kg, labelled with their source.

## Making stage

Electricity kWh x 0.710 kg CO2 per kWh.

Generator diesel x 2.68 kg CO2 per litre, if used.

Divide by pieces made in the month.

## Yarn

Ask spinners for a figure per kg of yarn. Multiply by yarn weight per garment, including waste.

## Worked example: making stage, one month (illustrative inputs)

- Electricity: 8,000 kWh x 0.710 = 5,680 kg CO2
- Pieces made: 20,000
- Per piece: 5,680 / 20,000 = 0.284 kg CO2

Quantities are illustrative; yarn is not included in this figure.

## 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.

- [Tiruppur knitwear per garment](https://senseible.earth/answers/tiruppur-knitwear-carbon-per-garment)
- [Knitted fabric per kg](https://senseible.earth/answers/knitted-fabric-carbon-footprint-per-kg)
- [Garment stitching per piece](https://senseible.earth/answers/garment-stitching-emissions-per-piece)

Sources: [CEA CO2 Baseline Database for the Indian Power Sector](https://cea.nic.in/cdm-co2-baseline-database/?lang=en), [IPCC 2006 Guidelines, Volume 2 Energy](https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/vol2.html), [GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard](https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-value-chain-scope-3-standard)

Last reviewed 2026-10-21.