Global

Waste plastic - mixture (treatment of - unsanitary landfill - hyperarid infiltration class (-250mm))

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

The activity generating the emissions is treatment of waste plastic, mixture, unsanitary landfill, hyperarid infiltration class (-250mm). The Reference Product is waste plastic, mixture. Waste plastic, mixture is a solid waste under the category of construction and demolition wastes. It can be sourced in many and various ways and therefore it can belong in all waste categories (commercial and institutional, industrial and construction and demolition). It is primarily generated in a wide range of production activities in many different sectors, like building infrastructure, production of plastics, chemicals, aircrafts, ferries, heavy machinery, etc. waste plastic, mixture contain the following fractions: 100% waste mixed plastics. By the database default (and per unit of reference product),waste plastic, mixture has 15.3% water on wet mass basis (84.7% dry matter) and Carbon present is of only fossil origin (74.73% on a dry matter basis). It has a higher heating value of 34.05 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, treatment option/s for this by-product include: deposition (sanitary landfill, unsanitary landfill), thermal (municipal incineration), uncontrolled forms of disposal (open dump, open burning). 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 Reference Product amount is -1. The cut-off classification is Waste. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/18217/documentation

Property	Value
Name	Waste plastic - mixture (treatment of - unsanitary landfill - hyperarid infiltration class (-250mm))
Sector	Waste
Category	Waste Management
Source	ecoinvent
Region	Global (GLOBAL)
Year	2006
LCA Activity	source_specific

Waste plastic - mixture (treatment of - unsanitary landfill - hyperarid infiltration class (-250mm))

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Other waste for treatment: waste water treatment

Plastic waste for treatment: landfill

Food waste for treatment: composting and land application

Waste plastic - mixture (treatment of - unsanitary landfill - hyperarid infiltration class (-250mm))

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Food waste for treatment: composting and land application

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