Emission Factor

Bottom ash - MSWI - LDPE/Alu in waste juice carton (ambient) - post-industrial (market for)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is market for bottom ash, MSWI, LDPE/Alu in waste juice carton (ambient), post-industrial. The reference product is bottom ash, MSWI, LDPE/Alu in waste juice carton (ambient), post-industrial. Bottom ash, MSWI, LDPE/Alu in waste juice carton (ambient), post-industrial is a solid waste under the category of industrial wastes. This bottom ash is exclusively generated in municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) of LDPE/Alu in waste juice carton (ambient), post-industrial. bottom ash, MSWI, LDPE/Alu in waste juice carton (ambient), post-industrial contain the following fractions: 100% bottom ash. By the database default (and per unit of reference product),bottom ash, MSWI, LDPE/Alu in waste juice carton (ambient), post-industrial has 9.69894% water on wet mass basis (90.3011% dry matter) and Carbon present is of only fossil origin (0.0060038 on a dry matter basis). It has no heating value. 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: slag landfill. Based on the aforementioned treatments that 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/28945/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameBottom ash - MSWI - LDPE/Alu in waste juice carton (ambient) - post-industrial (market for)
SectorWaste
CategoryWaste Product
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
2017
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e
    kg/kg
Scopes3.5, 3.12
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
waste-type_bottom_ash_mswi_ldpe_alu_in_waste_juice_carton_ambient_post_industrial_market_for_bottom_ash_mswi_ldpe_alu_in_waste_juice_carton_ambient_post_industrial-disposal_method_combustion
UUID
6594e6bb-2b29-4727-a55d-f51bd480cd66
Code Snippet
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