Emission Factor

Waste wood - post-consumer (market for waste wood - post-consumer)

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Emission factor summary

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product 'waste wood post-consumer' is a solid waste under the category of industrial wastes. It is primarily generated in various industrial activities like furniture production means of transport maintenance glass wool mat ect. 'waste wood post-consumer' contain the following fractions: 100% wood fraction with potential impurities. By the database default (and per unit of reference product) 'waste wood post-consumer' has 28.5714285714286% water on wet mass basis (71.4285714285714% dry matter) and Carbon present is of only non-fossil origin (49.4% on a dry matter basis). It has a lower heating value of 9.99 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: mechanical (shredding). 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: glued laminated timber production average glue mix; glued solid timber production; structural timber production; three and five layered board 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 cut-off classification is Recyclable. The activity type is market activity. The reference product amount is 1.

PropertyValue
NameWaste wood - post-consumer (market for waste wood - post-consumer)
SectorWaste
CategoryWaste Management
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.10
Region
Unit Type
Year
2019
Year Released
2023
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kg
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
waste_management-type_waste_wood_post_consumer_market_for_waste_wood_post_consumer
UUID
1f274b48-7bf6-4aa1-9344-3cba8bb8a260
Code Snippet
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