Rest-of-World

United States of America (the)

Sewage sludge 75% water WWT WW from GGBFS production (market for sewage sludge 75% water WWT WW from GGBFS production)

Austria

Australia

Belgium

Bulgaria

Brazil

Canada

Switzerland

China

Cyprus

Czechia

Germany

Denmark

Estonia

Spain

Finland

France

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)

South Africa

Food waste for treatment: waste water treatment

Other waste for treatment: waste water treatment

Albania

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Colombia

Iceland

Montenegro

North Macedonia

Peru

Serbia

Kosovo

Waste packaging paper (market for waste packaging paper)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product sewage sludge 75% water WWT WW from GGBFS production' is a liquid waste under the category of industrial wastes. This sewage sludge is produced exclusively in the wastewater treatment (WWT) of 'WW from GGBFS production'. The composition of the sewage sludge is specific to and dependent on the original composition of 'WW from GGBFS production'. 'sewage sludge 75% water WWT WW from GGBFS production' contain the following fractions: 100% sewage sludge with 75% water content. By the database default (and per unit of reference product),'sewage sludge 75% water WWT WW from GGBFS production' has 75% water on wet mass basis (25% dry matter) and Carbon present is of only fossil origin (50.17% on a dry matter basis). It has a higher heating value of 22.51 MJ/kg and a lower heating value of 14.55 MJ/kg. This kind of by-product (recyclable or waste) is generated in a specific treatment process and as such is not intended to be used as for modelling waste outputs from other activities. In the ecoinvent database treatment option/s for this by-product include: deposition (sanitary landfill). 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 cut-off classification is Waste. The activity type is market activity. The reference product amount is -1.

Property	Value
Name	Sewage sludge 75% water WWT WW from GGBFS production (market for sewage sludge 75% water WWT WW from GGBFS production)
Sector	Waste
Category	Waste Management
Source	ecoinvent
Region	Rest-of-World (RoW), United States of America (the) (US)
Unit Type	Weight
Year	2010
LCA Activity	unknown

Emission Factor Name	Region	Source	Year	Unit
Sewage sludge 75% water WWT WW from GGBFS production (market for sewage sludge 75% water WWT WW from GGBFS production)	Rest-of-World	ecoinvent	2010	Weight
Sewage sludge 75% water WWT WW from GGBFS production (market for sewage sludge 75% water WWT WW from GGBFS production)	United States of America (the)	ecoinvent	2010	Weight

Sewage sludge 75% water WWT WW from GGBFS production (market for sewage sludge 75% water WWT WW from GGBFS production)

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