# What is the carbon footprint of a tube of silicone sealant?

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/silicone-sealant-carbon-footprint-per-tube

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.

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Sources: [GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard](https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-value-chain-scope-3-standard), [GHG Protocol Corporate Standard](https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard)

Last reviewed 2026-10-22.