Global

Waste polyethylene - high density - packaging - for recycling - unsorted (Recycled Content cut-off)

Albania

Austria

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Belgium

Bulgaria

Canada

Quebec, CA

Switzerland

Cyprus

Czechia

Germany

Denmark

Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent)

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 waste polyethylene, high density, packaging, for recycling, unsorted, Recycled Content cut-off. The reference product is waste polyethylene, high density, packaging, for recycling, unsorted. Waste polyethylene, high density, packaging, for recycling, unsorted is a solid waste under the category of residential, industrial wastes, commercial and institutional waste. It is generated from packaging applications in a variety of places, e.g. collection from households.  waste polyethylene, high density, packaging, for recycling, unsorted contain the following fractions: 100% waste high polyethylene. By the database default (and per unit of reference product),waste polyethylene, high density, packaging, for recycling, unsorted has 2.7% water on wet mass basis (97.3% dry matter) and Carbon present is of only fossil origin (82.9% on a dry matter basis). It has no heating value.  This kind of by-product (recyclable or waste) is generated from ordinary transforming activities, and as such can be considered for modelling waste outputs of comparable composition.  In the ecoinvent database, treatment option/s for this by-product include: formal recycling. Based on the aforementioned treatments, this by-product receives, it is a non-hazardous waste.  This by-product can be modelled on two levels: treatment activity and market activity. The former one refers to the specific technology treating the by-product while the latter level represents a mix of treatments. Users are encouraged to inspect the modelling assumptions of the treatment activities and when selecting the market to additionally inspect the treatment mix.  Collection and transportation of this by-product is accounted in the respective market activity, users are advised to inspect and modify the average transportation distances for a case specific modelling.  The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is Recyclable. 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/94364/documentation.

The activity generating the emissions is waste polyethylene, high density, packaging, for recycling, unsorted, Recycled Content cut-off. The Reference Product is waste polyethylene, high density, packaging, for recycling, unsorted. Waste polyethylene, high density, packaging, for recycling, unsorted is a solid waste under the category of residential, industrial wastes, commercial and institutional waste. It is generated from packaging applications in a variety of places, e.g. collection from households. waste polyethylene, high density, packaging, for recycling, unsorted contain the following fractions: 100% waste high polyethylene. By the database default (and per unit of reference product),waste polyethylene, high density, packaging, for recycling, unsorted has 2.7% water on wet mass basis (97.3% dry matter) and Carbon present is of only fossil origin (82.9% on a dry matter basis). It has no heating value. This kind of by-product (recyclable or waste) is generated from ordinary transforming activities, and as such can be considered for modelling waste outputs of comparable composition. In the ecoinvent database, treatment option/s for this by-product include: formal recycling. Based on the aforementioned treatments, this by-product receives, it is a non-hazardous waste. This by-product can be modelled on two levels: treatment activity and market activity. The former one refers to the specific technology treating the by-product while the latter level represents a mix of treatments. Users are encouraged to inspect the modelling assumptions of the treatment activities and when selecting the market to additionally inspect the treatment mix. Collection and transportation of this by-product is accounted in the respective market activity, users are advised to inspect and modify the average transportation distances for a case specific modelling. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is Recyclable. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/94364/documentation

Property	Value
Name	Waste polyethylene - high density - packaging - for recycling - unsorted (Recycled Content cut-off)
Sector	Waste
Category	Waste Product
Source	ecoinvent
Region	Global (GLOBAL)
Unit Type	Weight
Year	2024 2025
LCA Activity	source_specific

Emission Factor Name	Region	Source	Year	Unit
Waste polyethylene - high density - packaging - for recycling - unsorted (Recycled Content cut-off)	Global	ecoinvent	2024	Weight
Waste polyethylene - high density - packaging - for recycling - unsorted (Recycled Content cut-off)	Global	ecoinvent	2025	Weight

Waste polyethylene - high density - packaging - for recycling - unsorted (Recycled Content cut-off)

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