Biowaste - kitchen and garden waste (market for biowaste - kitchen and garden waste)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product '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 cut-off classification is Waste. The activity type is market activity. The reference product amount is -1.