Switzerland

Europe without Switzerland

Rest-of-World

Waste paper - unsorted (market for waste paper - unsorted)

Austria

Australia

Belgium

Bulgaria

Brazil

Canada

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

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 'waste paper unsorted' is a solid waste under the category of industrial wastes. It is primarily generated in paper production plastic production electricity production activities. 'waste paper unsorted' contain the following fractions: 100% unsorted waste paper. By the database default (and per unit of reference product) 'waste paper unsorted' has 0% water on wet mass basis (90% dry matter) and it has no Carbon content. It has a lower heating value of 14.11 MJ/kg. 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: fibre cement corrugated slab production; fibre cement roof slate production; graphic paper production 100% recycled; treatment of waste paper to pulp wet lap totally chlorine free bleached; treatment of waste paper unsorted sorting.  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	Waste paper - unsorted (market for waste paper - unsorted)
Sector	Waste
Category	Waste Management
Source	ecoinvent
Region	Switzerland (CH), Europe without Switzerland (EU_EXP_CH), Rest-of-World (RoW)
Unit Type	Weight
Year	2000 2011 2012
LCA Activity	Refer to source

Waste paper - unsorted (market for waste paper - unsorted)

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Waste Management Emission Factors

Food waste for treatment: waste water treatment

Other waste for treatment: waste water treatment

Waste packaging paper (market for waste packaging paper)