Global

Spent automobile catalyst (market for spent automobile catalyst)

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)

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 'spent automobile catalyst' is a solid waste under the category of industrial wastes. It is primarily generated in end-of-life of automotives. 'spent automobile catalyst' contain the following fractions: palladium rhodium platinum and inert material. By the database default (and per unit of reference product) 'spent automobile catalyst' has 0% water on wet mass basis (0% 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 this by-product is used in the following processes: treatment of automobile catalyst.  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 Recyclable. The activity type is market activity. The reference product amount is 1.

Property	Value
Name	Spent automobile catalyst (market for spent automobile catalyst)
Sector	Waste
Category	Waste Management
Source	ecoinvent
Region	Global (GLOBAL)
Unit Type	Weight
Year	2011
LCA Activity	cradle_to_consumer

Spent automobile catalyst (market for spent automobile catalyst)

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Other waste for treatment: waste water treatment

Plastic waste for treatment: landfill

Food waste for treatment: composting and land application