Emission Factor

Compost (treatment of kitchen and garden biowaste - home ing in heaps and containers)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is treatment of kitchen and garden biowaste, home composting in heaps and containers. The Reference Product is compost. "compost" is a humus-like material. It is the result of composting, which has been sanitised and stabilised, and which confers beneficial effects when it is added to soil. In 1kg of compost there is 13.63g N, 6.32g P and 12g K. In can be used in the following applications: as growing media constituent, or can be used to fertilize plants. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/19418/documentation

PropertyValue
NameCompost (treatment of kitchen and garden biowaste - home ing in heaps and containers)
SectorWaste
CategoryWaste Management
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.12
Region
Unit Type
Year
2014
Year Released
2025
Emission Factor
  • CO2e
    kg/kg
Scopes3.5, 3.12
LCA Activity
source_specific
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
waste_management-type_compost_treatment_of_kitchen_and_garden_biowaste_home_composting_in_heaps_and_containers-disposal_method_composting
UUID
689d4293-43d6-480d-8b8b-fa9415840ed7
Code Snippet
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