Waste polyethylene - for recycling - unsorted (market for waste polyethylene - for recycling - unsorted)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product consumers can deposit empty PE bottles at the bigger retailers that sell PE bottles. The retro-logistic is mainly organised and integrated in the logistic process of the involved retailers. The composition of the collected materials is extrapolated from waste PE bottles collected {CH} which delivers 86 % PE (bottles and caps) 5 % labels and 9 % impurities (low quality PE and other plastics). The cut-off classification is Recyclable. The activity type is market activity. The reference product amount is 1.