Recultivation - shale quarry

The activity generating the emissions is recultivation, shale quarry. The Reference Product is recultivation, shale quarry. This is delivering the service of recultivation of a shale quarry mine. The process represents the recultivation of 1 m2 of topsoil after shale quarry extraction with coverage of an assumed average thickness of 0.3 m and a density of 1400 kg/m3. The mass of topsoil per m2 is circa 420 kg, while the ratio of topsoil to extracted shale quarry is 0.26%. The service includes land transformation from mine to forest and the machines needed but it excludes the refill material. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/11360/documentation