Clove: Carbon Offset for Online Shopping

Clove is a free extension that makes offsetting carbon emissions from online purchases simple and easy! 📚Clove calculates the carbon emissions of your online orders through a detailed algorithm and the cost of offsetting your carbon emissions. 🌱We prompt you to donate to environmental non-profit organizations focused on offsetting carbon Checkout https://joinclove.org for more information about our extension, blog articles, and much more! How We Calculate Your Carbon Offset: Clove calculates your carbon footprint of your purchased products through manufacturing and the shipping process. Our calculations are based on estimates made by the EPA during 2020 and 2021. The EPA provided data that estimated the carbon footprint per dollar of manufacturing cost for different categories of products; some categories include toys, shoes, clothes, and computers. Clove currently has over 40 different categories of products, and each Amazon product will be matched to the closest category, and calculations will be based on the closest category. Amazon also provided a 2020 report with estimates of their carbon footprint per dollar spent on their website. Based on the data provided by the EPA and by Amazon, we created formulas for each category of product, and used those formulas to calculate the carbon footprint. Disclaimer: Our calculations are an estimate, and carbon footprints of products may vary based on location and quality of manufacturing and methods of delivery. We are working to create more specific product categories, so that our carbon footprint estimates are more exact.