Waste - electrical and electronic cables (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is market for waste, electrical and electronic cables. The reference product is waste, electrical and electronic cables. Waste, electrical and electronic cables is a solid waste under the category of industrial wastes. It can be sourced in many and various ways and therefore it can belong in the following waste categories: residential, commercial and institutional. It is primarily generated in end-of-life of electrical and electronic devices, as well as in the demolition of buildings and infrastructure. waste, electrical and electronic cables contain the following fractions: 62% Copper fror the cables and 38% wire insulation, composed by 66.3% PVC, 31.2% PE and Cu 2.5%. By the database default (and per unit of reference product),waste, electrical and electronic cables has 0.0979999999999981% water on wet mass basis (99.902% dry matter) and Carbon present is of only fossil origin (20.87% on a dry matter basis). It has a higher heating value of 10.54 MJ/kg and a lower heating value of 10.46 MJ/kg . This kind of by-product (recyclable or waste) is generated in a specific treatment process, and as such is not intended to be used as for modelling waste outputs from other activities. In the ecoinvent database, treatment option/s for this by-product include: uncontrolled forms of disposal (open burning). 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 ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/28409/documentation.