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Wireless communications

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Other communications equipment

Audio and video equipment and unrecorded media

Computers / computer peripherals and parts

Emission intensity of supply chain (with margins i.e. cradle to shelf) in US dollars spend on: wireless communications. This factor is representative of the described commodity (equivalent to a goods or services category) and was obtained from the USEEIO model v1.0.1. Refer to the source for the source-specific data quality assessment. Retrieved from Supply Chain Factors Dataset v1.1.1

Emission intensity of supply chain (with margins i.e. cradle to shelf) in US dollars spend on: wireless communications. This factor is representative of the described commodity (equivalent to a goods or services category) and was obtained from the USEEIO model. Refer to the source for the source-specific data quality assessment.

The activity generating the emissions is consumer electronics production, mobile device, smartphone. The reference product is consumer electronics, mobile device, smartphone. This is an infrastructure, representing 1 unit of a smartphone. Data stem from a LCA study on the Fairphone 1, a mid-range smartphone from 2014 with 4.3 inch display and a total weight of 163.45g 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/24984/documentation.

Consumer electronics - mobile device - smartphone (consumer electronics production)

The activity generating the emissions is market for consumer electronics, mobile device, smartphone. The reference product is consumer electronics, mobile device, smartphone. This is an infrastructure, representing 1 unit of a smartphone. Data stem from a LCA study on the Fairphone 1, a mid-range smartphone from 2014 with 4.3 inch display and a total weight of 163.45g The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/24647/documentation.

Consumer electronics - mobile device - smartphone (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is consumer electronics production, mobile device, tablet. The reference product is consumer electronics, mobile device, tablet. This is an infrastructure, representing 1 unit of a tablet (approx. 10-inch). Data stem from a LCA study of a smartphone scaled to fit the composition and proportions of a tablet. The scaling was done with an average composition of tablets resulting in a weight of 519g per unit. 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/24691/documentation.

Consumer electronics - mobile device - tablet (consumer electronics production)

The activity generating the emissions is market for consumer electronics, mobile device, tablet. The reference product is consumer electronics, mobile device, tablet. This is an infrastructure, representing 1 unit of a tablet (approx. 10-inch). Data stem from a LCA study of a smartphone scaled to fit the composition and proportions of a tablet. The scaling was done with an average composition of tablets resulting in a weight of 519g per unit. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/24545/documentation.

Consumer electronics - mobile device - tablet (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is electronics production, for control units. The reference product is electronics, for control units. This product represents generic electronics for a control unit. It has a composition of 46% steel (housing), 32% plastics, 14% printed wiring boards and 8% cables (various types). 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/1034/documentation.

Electronics - for control units (electronics production)

The activity generating the emissions is electronics production, for control units. The reference product is electronics, for control units. This product represents generic electronics for a control unit. It has a composition of 46% steel (housing), 32% plastics, 14% printed wiring boards and 8% cables (various types). 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/4320/documentation.

The activity generating the emissions is market for electronics, for control units. The reference product is electronics, for control units. This product represents generic electronics for a control unit. It has a composition of 46% steel (housing), 32% plastics, 14% printed wiring boards and 8% cables (various types). The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/5610/documentation.

Electronics - for control units (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is market for single-Si wafer, for electronics. The reference product is single-Si wafer, for electronics. This product represents a blank wafer of pure silicon. It is used in the semiconductor industry as a basis onto which integrated circuits are etched through photolithography. The sc-Silicon columns are sawn into square wafers with a size 156x156 mm2 (0.0243 m2), a thickness of 270 um and weight of 629 g/m2. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/5951/documentation.

Single-Si wafer - for electronics (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is single-Si wafer production, for electronics. The reference product is single-Si wafer, for electronics. This product represents a blank wafer of pure silicon. It is used in the semiconductor industry as a basis onto which integrated circuits are etched through photolithography. The sc-Silicon columns are sawn into square wafers with a size 156x156 mm2 (0.0243 m2), a thickness of 270 um and weight of 629 g/m2. 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/4194/documentation.

Single-Si wafer - for electronics (single-Si wafer production)

The activity generating the emissions is single-Si wafer production, for electronics. The reference product is single-Si wafer, for electronics. This product represents a blank wafer of pure silicon. It is used in the semiconductor industry as a basis onto which integrated circuits are etched through photolithography. The sc-Silicon columns are sawn into square wafers with a size 156x156 mm2 (0.0243 m2), a thickness of 270 um and weight of 629 g/m2. 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/1787/documentation.

Emission intensity of supply chain (with margins i.e. cradle to shelf) in US dollars spend on: consumer electronics and appliances rental. This factor is representative of the described goods or services category as defined by the 2017 version of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Refer to the source for the source-specific data quality assessment. Retrieved from Supply Chain Factors Dataset v1.2.

Consumer electronics and appliances rental

Emission intensity of supply chain (with margins i.e. cradle to shelf) in US dollars spend on: consumer electronics and appliances rental. This factor is representative of the described goods or services category as defined by the 2017 version of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Refer to the source for the source-specific data quality assessment. Retrieved from Supply Chain Factors Dataset v1.3.

Emission intensity of supply chain (with margins i.e. cradle to shelf) in US dollars spend on: consumer electronics repair and maintenance. This factor is representative of the described goods or services category as defined by the 2017 version of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Refer to the source for the source-specific data quality assessment. Retrieved from Supply Chain Factors Dataset v1.2.

Consumer electronics repair and maintenance

Emission intensity of supply chain (with margins i.e. cradle to shelf) in US dollars spend on: consumer electronics repair and maintenance. This factor is representative of the described goods or services category as defined by the 2017 version of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Refer to the source for the source-specific data quality assessment. Retrieved from Supply Chain Factors Dataset v1.3.

Emission intensity of the supply chain per Canadian dollar spent on: electronics and appliances - retail margins. 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.

Electronics and appliances - retail margins

Emission intensity of the supply chain per Canadian dollar spent on: electronics and appliances - retail margins. 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	Wireless communications
Sector	Equipment
Category	Electronics
Source	EPA
Region	United States of America (the) (US)
Unit Type	Money
Year	2018
LCA Activity	cradle_to_shelf

Emission Factor Name	Region	Source	Year	Unit
Wireless communications	United States of America (the)	EPA	2018	Money
Wireless communications	United States of America (the)	EPA	2018	Money
Consumer electronics - mobile device - smartphone (consumer electronics production)	Global	ecoinvent	2014	Number
Consumer electronics - mobile device - smartphone (market for)	Global	ecoinvent	2014	Number
Consumer electronics - mobile device - tablet (consumer electronics production)	Global	ecoinvent	2014	Number
Consumer electronics - mobile device - tablet (market for)	Global	ecoinvent	2014	Number
Electronics - for control units (electronics production)	Europe (Ecoinvent)	ecoinvent	1990	Weight
Electronics - for control units (electronics production)	Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent)	ecoinvent	1990	Weight
Electronics - for control units (market for)	Global	ecoinvent	2011	Weight
Single-Si wafer - for electronics (market for)	Global	ecoinvent	2011	Area
Single-Si wafer - for electronics (single-Si wafer production)	Europe (Ecoinvent)	ecoinvent	1992	Area
Single-Si wafer - for electronics (single-Si wafer production)	Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent)	ecoinvent	1992	Area
Consumer electronics and appliances rental	United States of America (the)	EPA	2019	Money
Consumer electronics and appliances rental	United States of America (the)	EPA	2022	Money
Consumer electronics repair and maintenance	United States of America (the)	EPA	2019	Money
Consumer electronics repair and maintenance	United States of America (the)	EPA	2022	Money
Electronics and appliances - retail margins	Alberta, CA	OpenIO-Canada	2018	Money
Electronics and appliances - retail margins	Alberta, CA	OpenIO-Canada	2018	Money
Electronics and appliances - retail margins	Alberta, CA	OpenIO-Canada	2019	Money
Electronics and appliances - retail margins	Alberta, CA	OpenIO-Canada	2019	Money

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