Waste paper - unsorted (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is market for waste paper, unsorted. The Reference Product is waste paper, unsorted. Waste paper, unsorted is a solid waste under the category of industrial wastes. It is primarily generated in paper production, plastic production, electricity production activities. waste paper, unsorted contain the following fractions: 100% unsorted waste paper. By the database default (and per unit of reference product),waste paper, unsorted has 0% water on wet mass basis (90% dry matter) and it has no Carbon content. It has a lower heating value of 14.11 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, this by-product is used in the following processes: fibre cement corrugated slab production; fibre cement roof slate production; graphic paper production, 100% recycled; treatment of waste paper to pulp, wet lap, totally chlorine free bleached; treatment of waste paper, unsorted, sorting. 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 market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/310/documentation