Polylactic acid - granulate (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is market for polylactic acid, granulate. The reference product is polylactic acid, granulate. Polylactic acid, granulate is a plastic product of bio origin, it is biodegradable and it is a thermoplastic material. This product consists of 100% virgin material with no content of recycled material. The product is used in the following applications and sectors: plastic films, bottles, cups for cold drinks, stiff packages like clamshells as well as degradable films. It can be processed on standard equipment and used in injection moulding, injection stretch blow moulding, and for the production of blown and cast films, biaxially oriented films, or transformed to extrusion paper-coating compounds, etc. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. 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/3672/documentation.