Biowaste - kitchen and garden waste (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is market for biowaste, kitchen and garden waste. The reference product is biowaste, kitchen and garden waste. Biowaste, kitchen and garden waste is a solid waste under the category of residential wastes. It can be sourced in many and various ways and therefore it can belong in all waste categories (commercial and institutional, industrial and construction and demolition). It is primarily generated in residential composting processes. biowaste, kitchen and garden waste contain the following fractions: 2:1 mixture by volume of kitcen waste (peelings, fruits and vegetables cut into pieces, remains of vegetable meal: rice, pasta, bread, eggshells, paper filters, coffee grounds excluding meat and fish) and garden waste (leftovers clippings and flowers). By the database default (and per unit of reference product),biowaste, kitchen and garden waste has 77% water on wet mass basis (23% dry matter) and Carbon present is of only non-fossil origin (38% on a dry matter basis). It has a lower heating value of 4.29 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: biological (home composting). 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/20306/documentation.