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Energy

Type	Unit	Average Monthly Usage	Average Monthly Cost ($)	Reduction (%)	Annual Unit Savings	Annual Cost Savings ($)	Annual CO2 Baseline	Annual C02 Savings
Electricity	KWH				12000.0	1800.0	28.6	2.9
Natural Gas	Therms				300.0	360.0	18.3	1.8
Water	Kgal				24.0	120.0	0.5	0.1

Transportation

Type	Fuel	Quantity	Miles/Gallon	Average Cost ($)/Gallon	Average Monthly Usage	Reduction (%)	Annual Unit Savings	Annual Cost Savings ($)	Annual CO2 Baseline	Annual C02 Savings
Company Vehicles	Gasoline						800.0	2400.0	35.6	7.1
Employees Vehicles	Gasoline						600.0	1800.0	26.7	5.3

Waste Management/Recycling

Type	Unit	Tons/Unit	Average Monthly Usage	Average Monthly Cost ($)	Cardboard Recycled (%)	Metals Recycled (%)	Mixed Paper Recycled (%)	Plastics Recycled (%)	Annual Unit Savings	Annual Cost Savings ($)	Annual CO2 Baseline	Annual C02 Savings
General	Cubic Yard								48.0	480.0	26.7	12.5

Purchasing

Type	Unit	Average Monthly Usage	Average Monthly Cost ($)	Distance Shipped	Average Truck Miles/Gallon	Average Diesel Cost/Gallon	Diversity Factor (%)	Reduction/ Recycled Content (%)	Annual Unit Savings	Annual Cost Savings ($)	Annual CO2 Baseline	Annual C02 Savings
Buy Local	Shipped Package								120.0	1200.0	0.2	0.2
Paper	Ream								0.0	0.0	0.2	0.7
Other	CO2 Tons								12.0	0.0	60.0	12.0

CO2 Conversation Table

Equivalent	Metric Tons
1 KWH	0.000238
1 Therm	0.006099
1 Kgal	0.002154
1 Gallon Gasoline	0.008890
1 Gallon Diesel	0.010170
1 Ton General Waste	2.970000
1 Ton Waste Cardboard	3.510000
1 Ton Waste Metals	5.410000
1 Ton Waste Paper	3.420000
1 Ton Waste Plastics	1.530000
1 Ton 0% Recycled Content Paper	1.030000
1 Ton 100% Recycled Content Paper	-3.310000
1 Car	5.460000
1 Home	10.990000
1 Tree	0.039000

Environmental Table

Equivalent	Metric Tons
CO2 Baseline	196.8
CO2 Projected	154.2
CO2 Savings	42.6
Cars	11
Homes	6
Trees	1556
Cost Savings ($)	8160

 

Source: Environmental Protection Agency

REACON CARBON CALCULATOR INSTRUCTIONS

Thank you for using the REACON Carbon Calculator! This Calculator was developed to provide users
with a simple and straight forward approach to determining their carbon footprint, reduction/recycling
goals, and the overall environmental impact both from a cost and carbon equivalent basis. The following
tips are organized by category. It is recommended that the user have a copy of at least one month's utility
bill either in the Spring or Fall months to prevent overestimating of either annual heating or cooling usage.
User can move cursor over input tips that are marked by a "?" to obtain more information on input entry or
general assumptions.

Please note: The REACON Carbon Calculator has been developed to provide users with a simplified
carbon footprint model and not intended to provide an exhaustive greenhouse gas inventory. Carbon
equivalents information has been obtained from the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

ENERGY

• For each energy type, enter your existing monthly usage, existing monthly cost, and estimated
  reduction goal in % from energy efficient equipment, better insulation, enhanced scheduling, etc.