Waste plastic - mixed - for recycling - unsorted (Recycled Content cut-off)

The activity generating the emissions is waste plastic, mixed, for recycling, unsorted, Recycled Content cut-off. The Reference Product is waste plastic, mixed, for recycling, unsorted. Waste plastic, mixed, for recycling, unsorted is a solid waste under the category of residential, industrial wastes, commercial and institutional waste. It is generated in a variety of processes, e.g. collection from households. waste plastic, mixed, for recycling, unsorted contain the following fractions: 100% waste plastic, mixed, for recycling, unsorted. By the database default (and per unit of reference product),waste plastic, mixed, for recycling, unsorted has 7.2% water on wet mass basis (92.8% dry matter) and Carbon present is of only fossil origin (85.7% on a dry matter basis). It has no heating value. 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: formal recycling. 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 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/92819/documentation