Emission Factor

Waste building wood - chrome preserved (market for)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is market for waste building wood, chrome preserved. The Reference Product is waste building wood, chrome preserved. Waste building wood, chrome preserved is a solid waste under the category of construction and demolition wastes. It is primarily generated in construction and demolition of building infrastructure. waste building wood, chrome preserved contain the following fractions: 100% chrome-preserved building wood. By the database default (and per unit of reference product),waste building wood, chrome preserved has 20% water on wet mass basis (80% dry matter) and Carbon present is of only non-fossil origin (50% on a dry matter basis). It has a higher heating value of 15.36 MJ/kg and a lower heating value of 13.99 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: thermal (municipal incineration). Based on the aforementioned treatments, this by-product receives, it is a non-hazardous waste. 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 Waste. The activity type is market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/3568/documentation

PropertyValue
NameWaste building wood - chrome preserved (market for)
SectorWaste
CategoryWaste Product
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.12
Region
Unit Type
Year
2010
Year Released
2025
Emission Factor
  • CO2e
    kg/kg
Scopes3.5, 3.12
LCA Activity
cradle_to_consumer
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
waste-type_waste_building_wood_chrome_preserved_market_for_waste_building_wood_chrome_preserved-disposal_method_na
UUID
3e470f5b-1f4c-4e5a-b080-d3fbcc91d3a7
Code Snippet
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