Switzerland

Scrap steel (treatment of scrap steel municipal incineration FAE)

Austria

Australia

Belgium

Bulgaria

Brazil

Canada

China

Cyprus

Czechia

Germany

Denmark

Estonia

Spain

Finland

France

United Kingdom

Greece

Croatia

Hungary

Indonesia

Ireland

India

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Korea, Republic of

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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 'scrap steel' is a solid waste under the category of industrial wastes. It can be sourced in many and various ways and therefore it can belong in the following waste categories: construction and demolition. It is primarily generated in a wide range of production activities in many different sectors. 'scrap steel' contain the following fractions: 100& steel scrap. By the database default (and per unit of reference product),'scrap steel' has 0% water on wet mass basis (100% dry matter) and it has no Carbon content. 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: deposition (inert material landfill) thermal (municipal incineration). Based on the aforementioned treatments this by-product receives it is a non-hazardous waste.  In addition this by-product is used in the following processes: clinker production.  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 cut-off classification is Waste. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is -1.

Property	Value
Name	Scrap steel (treatment of scrap steel municipal incineration FAE)
Sector	Waste
Category	Waste Management
Source	ecoinvent
Region	Switzerland (CH)
Unit Type	Weight
Year	2006
LCA Activity	source_specific

Scrap steel (treatment of scrap steel municipal incineration FAE)

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Other waste for treatment: waste water treatment

Plastic waste for treatment: landfill

Food waste for treatment: composting and land application