Carbon Recycling now works inside Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot

Carbon Recycling customers can now connect Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot or another AI assistant to their account. The assistant can read your footprint and reports and enter data from the bills, fuel card statements and spreadsheets you share with it, while Carbon Recycling applies the government's emission factors.

Updated 19 October 2026 by the Carbon Recycling team. Figures use the official UK government conversion factors and are checked against the current gov.uk guidance.

Most of the time spent on a carbon footprint goes on copying numbers out of bills and spreadsheets. An AI assistant connected to your account can do that part for you, and you check the result in the app.

How it works

Carbon Recycling runs an MCP server, the open standard AI assistants use to connect to other services. In the app, the AI assistants page gives you a connection address. Paste it into your assistant, sign in to Carbon Recycling and press Allow. Step-by-step instructions for Claude, ChatGPT and others are on that page.

What you can ask it to do

"Here are this year's electricity bills for our two offices. Add them."
"Add the mileage from this expenses spreadsheet as business travel."
"What's our total footprint this year, and what's the biggest source?"
"Which emission factor do you use for a medium diesel van?"

The assistant passes on what was used, how much and when. Carbon Recycling does the calculation with the factors for that year, so the figures match what you'd get entering the data by hand, and every entry shows in your activity list where you can check or delete it.

Who it's for

Anyone who already uses an AI assistant at work. It's most useful at year end, when a year of bills needs entering at once, and for answering a customer's carbon questions from your own figures. Our post on answering customer carbon questionnaires covers what to say.

How Carbon Recycling helps

Connecting an assistant is part of your Carbon Recycling account. Start a free trial, open AI assistants in the app menu and follow the steps for your assistant. If you'd rather not use AI, everything it does can be done in the app or by uploading a spreadsheet.

Frequently asked questions

Which AI assistants work with Carbon Recycling?

Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Cursor, VS Code and any other assistant that supports remote MCP servers. ChatGPT needs a paid plan and developer mode for custom connectors.

What can the assistant do?

Read your account, sites, activities, footprint summary and reports, search the emission factors, add sites, and add or remove activity entries, such as figures from a bill or a spreadsheet you share with it.

Is my data safe?

You sign in to Carbon Recycling and press Allow, and you can see and remove connections from the AI assistants page in the app. Assistants that can't sign in can use an API key you create and can delete.

Does the assistant choose the emission factors?

No. Carbon Recycling applies the government's factors for the right year, the same as when you enter data yourself. The assistant only passes on the activity, quantity and dates.

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