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The activity generating the emissions is market for lead in car shredder residue. The Reference Product is lead in car shredder residue. Lead in car shredder residue is a solid waste under the category of industrial wastes. It is primarily generated in maintenance/end-of-life of wood purse seiner and in automotive shredding treatment process. lead in car shredder residue contain the following fractions: 50% lead in Automotive Shredder Residue (ASR) burnable and 50% lead in ASR inert. By the database default (and per unit of reference product),lead in car shredder residue 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: thermal (municipal incineration). 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 Reference Product amount is -1. The cut-off classification is Waste. The activity type is market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/18151/documentation

PropertyValue
NameLead in car shredder residue (market for)
SectorWaste
CategoryWaste Product
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.12
Region
Year
2010
Year Released
2025
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kg
Scopes
XX,XX
LCA Activity
cradle_to_consumer
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
xxx
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

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