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Waste polyethylene - high density - packaging - for recycling - unsorted (Recycled Content cut-off)

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The activity generating the emissions is waste polyethylene, high density, packaging, for recycling, unsorted, Recycled Content cut-off. The reference product is waste polyethylene, high density, packaging, for recycling, unsorted. Waste polyethylene, high density, packaging, for recycling, unsorted is a solid waste under the category of residential, industrial wastes, commercial and institutional waste. It is generated from packaging applications in a variety of places, e.g. collection from households. waste polyethylene, high density, packaging, for recycling, unsorted contain the following fractions: 100% waste high polyethylene. By the database default (and per unit of reference product),waste polyethylene, high density, packaging, for recycling, unsorted has 2.7% water on wet mass basis (97.3% dry matter) and Carbon present is of only fossil origin (82.9% on a dry matter basis). It has no heating value. This kind of by-product (recyclable or waste) is generated from ordinary transforming activities, and as such can be considered for modelling waste outputs of comparable composition. In the ecoinvent database, treatment option/s for this by-product include: formal recycling. 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 Recyclable. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/94364/documentation.

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NameWaste polyethylene - high density - packaging - for recycling - unsorted (Recycled Content cut-off)
SectorWaste
CategoryWaste Product
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Year
2024
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kg
Scopes
XX,XX
LCA Activity
source_specific
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
xxx
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

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