Polystyrene - extruded (polystyrene production - CO2 blown)

The activity generating the emissions is polystyrene production, extruded, CO2 blown. The reference product is polystyrene, extruded. Polystyrene, extruded, is a plastic product of fossil origin, it is not biodegradable and it is a thermoplastic material. This product consists of 100% virgin material with no content of recycled material. The product is used in the following applications and sectors: used to form plates, sheet, or foam boards. In a secondary process step extruded sheet can be thermoformed, for example into disposables such as trays and containers. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/4634/documentation.