Aluminium scrap - post-consumer - prepared for melting (treatment of metal scrap - mixed - for recycling - unsorted - sorting)

The activity generating the emissions is treatment of metal scrap, mixed, for recycling, unsorted, sorting. The Reference Product is aluminium scrap, post-consumer, prepared for melting. Aluminium scrap, post-consumer, prepared for melting is a solid waste under the category of industrial wastes. It is primarily generated in board carton production and during various waste treatment processes. aluminium scrap, post-consumer, prepared for melting contain the following fractions: 100% aluminium fraction with minimum impurities. By the database default (and per unit of reference product),aluminium scrap, post-consumer, prepared for melting has 0% water on wet mass basis (100% dry matter) and it has no Carbon content. 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 aluminium scrap, post-consumer, prepared for recycling, at refiner; treatment of aluminium scrap, post-consumer, prepared for recycling, at remelter. 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 transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/22420/documentation