How do I account for row cover, plastic or woven?
This
is not yet in scope of the Cool Farm Tool, but it is planned for inclusion in
Cool Farm 3.0, to be released next year, under capital items and we will also
include their disposal. A potential work around is, if you can ask your
manufacturer if they have an emission factor to use and add it manually for
your internal reports - ideally the manufacturer would have a certification of
their emission factor. Also, if possible, we would welcome seeing the emission
factor for when we start developing the emission factors for Cool Farm 3.0.
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