Emission Factor

Buttermilk - from cow milk (butter production)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is butter production, from cow milk. The reference product is buttermilk, from cow milk. The product buttermilk, from cow milk is a by-product of butter production. Per 1 kg of butter, 1.01 kg of buttermilk is produced. 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/10802/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameButtermilk - from cow milk (butter production)
SectorAgriculture/Hunting/Forestry/Fishing
CategoryLivestock Farming
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
2007
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kg
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
livestock_farming-type_buttermilk_from_cow_milk_butter_production_from_cow_milk
UUID
3d290e78-a4f2-477c-83b0-27c2bdbd8374
Code Snippet
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