Switzerland

Europe without Switzerland (Ecoinvent)

Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent)

Aluminium - in mixed metal scrap (market for)

Albania

Austria

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Belgium

Bulgaria

Canada

Quebec, CA

Cyprus

Czechia

Germany

Denmark

Estonia

Spain

Finland

France

United Kingdom

Greece

Croatia

Hungary

Ireland

India

Iceland

Italy

Japan

Korea, Republic of

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Latvia

Montenegro

North Macedonia

Malta

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Serbia

Russian Federation (the)

Sweden

Slovenia

Slovakia

Türkiye

Taiwan (Province of China)

Kosovo

Municipal solid waste (market for)

Brazil

Colombia

Peru

South Africa

Waste plastic - mixture (market for)

Waste glass (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is market for aluminium, in mixed metal scrap. The Reference Product is aluminium, in mixed metal scrap. Source-segregated municipal solid waste fraction, typically collected separately or comingled with other recyclable metal fractions for sorting and recycling. Mixed metal scrap refers to the joint collection of waste tinplate, ferrous metal and aluminum. From the residues in sorting, it is assumed that 2% of the material is impurities, with the same composition as average residual MSW. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is Recyclable. The activity type is market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/22569/documentation

The activity generating the emissions is market for aluminium, in mixed metal scrap. The Reference Product is aluminium, in mixed metal scrap. Source-segregated municipal solid waste fraction, typically collected separately or comingled with other recyclable metal fractions for sorting and recycling. Mixed metal scrap refers to the joint collection of waste tinplate, ferrous metal and aluminum. From the residues in sorting, it is assumed that 2% of the material is impurities, with the same composition as average residual MSW. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is Recyclable. The activity type is market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/22929/documentation

The activity generating the emissions is market for aluminium, in mixed metal scrap. The Reference Product is aluminium, in mixed metal scrap. Source-segregated municipal solid waste fraction, typically collected separately or comingled with other recyclable metal fractions for sorting and recycling. Mixed metal scrap refers to the joint collection of waste tinplate, ferrous metal and aluminum. From the residues in sorting, it is assumed that 2% of the material is impurities, with the same composition as average residual MSW. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is Recyclable. The activity type is market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/22431/documentation

Property	Value
Name	Aluminium - in mixed metal scrap (market for)
Sector	Waste
Category	Waste Product
Source	ecoinvent
Region	Switzerland (CH), Europe without Switzerland (Ecoinvent) (ECOINVENT_EUROPE_EXP_CH), Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent) (ECOINVENT_ROW)
Unit Type	Weight
Year	2012
LCA Activity	cradle_to_consumer

Aluminium - in mixed metal scrap (market for)

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Municipal solid waste (market for)

Waste plastic - mixture (market for)

Waste glass (market for)