Emission Factor

Waste plastic - consumer electronics - sorted (treatment of waste plastic - consumer electronics - dismantling - sorting and cleaning - formal sector)

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Emission factor summary

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The collected plastic scrap is dismantled and segregated by recyclers. The material is segregated and sorted to ensure uniformity of the type of the plastic being recycled. Various methods such as salt water bath technique (density separation) identification through the smell of burning plastics brittleness of the plastics and so on are used to identify and segregate different types of plastics The cut-off classification is Recyclable. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.

PropertyValue
NameWaste plastic - consumer electronics - sorted (treatment of waste plastic - consumer electronics - dismantling - sorting and cleaning - formal sector)
SectorWaste
CategoryWaste Management
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.10
Region
Unit Type
Year
2017
Year Released
2023
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kg
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
waste_management-type_waste_plastic_consumer_electronics_sorted_treatment_of_waste_plastic_consumer_electronics_dismantling_sorting_and_cleaning_formal_sector
UUID
741ce35b-7de1-4086-86ee-784e03e4dd03
Code Snippet
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