LDPE/Alu in waste UHT milk carton (ambient) - post-industrial (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is market for LDPE/Alu in waste UHT milk carton (ambient), post-industrial. The reference product is LDPE/Alu in waste UHT milk carton (ambient), post-industrial. LDPE/Alu in waste UHT milk carton (ambient), post-industrial is a solid waste under the category of industrial wastes. It is primarily generated in production of beverage carton for UHT milk. LDPE/Alu in waste UHT milk carton (ambient), post-industrial contain the following fractions: 20.6 % aluminium and 79.4 % low density polyethylene. By the database default (and per unit of reference product),LDPE/Alu in waste UHT milk carton (ambient), post-industrial has 10.9376% water on wet mass basis (89.0624% dry matter) and Carbon present is of only fossil origin (0.613166 on a dry matter basis). It has a higher heating value of 34.5813 MJ/kg and a lower heating value of 31.8375 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: municipal incineration. Based on the aforementioned treatments that 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 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/29062/documentation.