Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent)

France

Compost (treatment of kitchen and garden biowaste - home composting in heaps and containers)

Austria

Australia

Belgium

Bulgaria

Brazil

Canada

Switzerland

China

Cyprus

Czechia

Germany

Denmark

Estonia

Spain

Finland

United Kingdom

Greece

Croatia

Hungary

Indonesia

Ireland

India

Italy

Korea, Republic of

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Latvia

Malta

Mexico

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Central Asia and Pacific Asia, Oceania, Antarctica

East Europe and Iceland

Africa except Egypt and South Africa

Latin America except Brazil

Middle East, Asia and Egypt

Russian Federation (the)

Sweden

Slovenia

Slovakia

Taiwan (Province of China)

United States of America (the)

South Africa

Other waste for treatment: waste water treatment

Japan

Plastic waste for treatment: landfill

Türkiye

Food waste for treatment: composting and land application

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product "compost" is a humus-like material. It is the result of composting which has been sanitised and stabilised and which confers beneficial effects when it is added to soil. In 1kg of compost there is 13.63g N 6.32g P and 12g K. In can be used in the following applications: as growing media constituent or can be used to fertilize plants. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.

The activity generating the emissions is treatment of kitchen and garden biowaste, home composting in heaps and containers. The Reference Product is compost. "compost" is a humus-like material. It is the result of composting, which has been sanitised and stabilised, and which confers beneficial effects when it is added to soil. In 1kg of compost there is 13.63g N, 6.32g P and 12g K. In can be used in the following applications: as growing media constituent, or can be used to fertilize plants. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/19418/documentation

Compost (treatment of kitchen and garden biowaste - home ing in heaps and containers)

The activity generating the emissions is treatment of kitchen and garden biowaste, home composting in heaps and containers. The Reference Product is compost. "compost" is a humus-like material. It is the result of composting, which has been sanitised and stabilised, and which confers beneficial effects when it is added to soil. In 1kg of compost there is 13.63g N, 6.32g P and 12g K. In can be used in the following applications: as growing media constituent, or can be used to fertilize plants. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/20977/documentation

Property	Value
Name	Compost (treatment of kitchen and garden biowaste - home composting in heaps and containers)
Sector	Waste
Category	Waste Management
Source	ecoinvent
Region	Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent) (ECOINVENT_ROW), France (FR)
Unit Type	Weight
Year	2014
LCA Activity	source_specific

Compost (treatment of kitchen and garden biowaste - home composting in heaps and containers)

Activity summary

API Reference

Interested in licensing this data?

Related factors

Waste Management Emission Factors

Other waste for treatment: waste water treatment

Plastic waste for treatment: landfill

Food waste for treatment: composting and land application