Decommissioned tram track (treatment of decommissioned tram track)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product 'decommissioned tram track' is a solid waste under the category of industrial wastes. It is primarily generated in the end-of-life of tram track infrastructure. 'decommissioned tram track' contain the following fractions: single fraction of decommissioned tram track. By the database default (and per unit of reference product) 'decommissioned tram track' has 0% water on wet mass basis (100% dry matter) and Carbon present is of only fossil origin (0.34% 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 this by-product is used in the following processes: treatment of decommissioned tram track. 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 ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is -1.