Polystyrene scrap - post-consumer (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is market for polystyrene scrap, post-consumer. The reference product is polystyrene scrap, post-consumer. Polystyrene scrap, post-consumer is a solid waste under the category of industrial wastes. It is primarily generated in collection of post-consumer polystyrene scrap . polystyrene scrap, post-consumer contain the following fractions: 100% polystyrene fraction with potential impurities. By the database default (and per unit of reference product),polystyrene scrap, post-consumer has 0% water on wet mass basis (100% dry matter) and Carbon present is of only fossil origin (92.26% on a dry matter basis). It has a lower heating value of 38.67 MJ/kg . This kind of by-product (recyclable or waste) it can be generated by both ordinary transforming and treatment activities. In the ecoinvent database, this by-product is used in the following processes: clay brick production; polystyrene foam slab production, 10% recycled; polystyrene foam slab production, 100% recycled; polystyrene foam slab production, 45% recycled; polystyrene foam slab with graphite, 6% recycled. 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 market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/7022/documentation.