Quebec, CA

Europe (Ecoinvent)

Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent)

Polymer foaming

Alberta, CA

British Columbia, CA

Manitoba, CA

New Brunswick, CA

Newfoundland and Labrador, CA

Nova Scotia, CA

Northwest Territories, CA

Nunavut, CA

Ontario, CA

Prince Edward Island, CA

Saskatchewan, CA

Yukon, CA

United Kingdom

United States of America (the)

Petrochemicals

Ammonia and chemical fertilizers

Basic organic chemicals

The activity generating the emissions is polymer foaming. The reference product is polymer foaming. This is delivering the service of polymer foaming. Foams are generated by adding physical (gases and low-boiling compounds) or chemical blowing agents (gas-releasing compounds) to the polymer. In principle, all polymers can be foamed but only a limited number of materials have been employed in the manufacture of foams, such as the thermoplastics polystyrene, poly(vinyl chloride), and low-density polyethylene (LDPE), as well as phenolic and polyurethane resins.                   In the service of foaming, 1 kg of input corresponds to 1 kg of expanded plastics. The converted amount of plastics is not included into the dataset. Thus, it should be used along 1 kg of plastic that can be foamed(usually polystyrene). The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/11410/documentation.

The activity generating the emissions is polymer foaming. The reference product is polymer foaming. This is delivering the service of polymer foaming. Foams are generated by adding physical (gases and low-boiling compounds) or chemical blowing agents (gas-releasing compounds) to the polymer. In principle, all polymers can be foamed but only a limited number of materials have been employed in the manufacture of foams, such as the thermoplastics polystyrene, poly(vinyl chloride), and low-density polyethylene (LDPE), as well as phenolic and polyurethane resins.                   In the service of foaming, 1 kg of input corresponds to 1 kg of expanded plastics. The converted amount of plastics is not included into the dataset. Thus, it should be used along 1 kg of plastic that can be foamed(usually polystyrene). The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/4508/documentation.

The activity generating the emissions is polymer foaming. The reference product is polymer foaming. This is delivering the service of polymer foaming. Foams are generated by adding physical (gases and low-boiling compounds) or chemical blowing agents (gas-releasing compounds) to the polymer. In principle, all polymers can be foamed but only a limited number of materials have been employed in the manufacture of foams, such as the thermoplastics polystyrene, poly(vinyl chloride), and low-density polyethylene (LDPE), as well as phenolic and polyurethane resins.                   In the service of foaming, 1 kg of input corresponds to 1 kg of expanded plastics. The converted amount of plastics is not included into the dataset. Thus, it should be used along 1 kg of plastic that can be foamed(usually polystyrene). The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/4028/documentation.

Emission intensity of the supply chain per Canadian dollar spent on: basic organic chemicals. Retrieved from the OpenIO-Canada v2.9 model which is a Canadian Environmentally Extended Input-Output (EEIO) model. The emission factor is provided in purchaser price including taxes retail margins and distribution costs. Endogenization is included meaning the emission factor also accounts for capital goods.

Emission intensity of the supply chain per Canadian dollar spent on: basic organic chemicals. Retrieved from the OpenIO-Canada v2.9 model which is a Canadian Environmentally Extended Input-Output (EEIO) model. The emission factor is provided in purchaser price including taxes retail margins and distribution costs. Endogenization is not included meaning the emission factor does not account for capital goods.

Property	Value
Name	Polymer foaming
Sector	Materials and Manufacturing
Category	Chemical Products
Source	ecoinvent
Region	Quebec, CA (CA-QC), Europe (Ecoinvent) (ECOINVENT_EUROPE), Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent) (ECOINVENT_ROW)
Unit Type	Weight
Year	1995
LCA Activity	unknown

Polymer foaming

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