Waste textile - soiled (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is market for waste textile, soiled. The reference product is waste textile, soiled. Waste textile, soiled is a solid waste under the category of industrial 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 different industrial applications like the production clinker, matress, textiles, paper, etc. waste textile, soiled contain the following fractions: 100% soiled textiles which consists of 95% textile and 5% waste mineral oil. By the database default (and per unit of reference product),waste textile, soiled has 25% water on wet mass basis (75% dry matter) and Carbon present is of only non-fossil origin (57.05% on a dry matter basis). It has a higher heating value of 19.78 MJ/kg . 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: thermal (municipal incineration). Based on the aforementioned treatments, this by-product receives, it is a non-hazardous waste. In addition, this by-product is used in the following processes: clinker production. 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/18797/documentation.