Waste paperboard - sorted (treatment of waste paperboard - unsorted - sorting)

The activity generating the emissions is treatment of waste paperboard, unsorted, sorting. The Reference Product is waste paperboard, sorted. Waste paperboard, sorted is a solid waste under the category of industrial wastes. It is primarily generated in sorting of waste paperboard. waste paperboard, sorted contain the following fractions: 100% sorted waste paperboard. By the database default (and per unit of reference product),waste paperboard, sorted has 24.3781094527363% water on wet mass basis (80.4% dry matter) and it has no Carbon content. It has a lower heating value of 15.92 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: containerboard production, fluting medium, recycled; containerboard production, fluting medium, semichemical; containerboard production, fluting medium, semichemical, 40% recycled content; containerboard production, linerboard, kraftliner; containerboard production, linerboard, testliner; folding boxboard carton production; white lined chipboard carton 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 Recyclable. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/10464/documentation