Waste plastic - consumer electronics - sorted (treatment of waste plastic - manual dismantling - sorting and cleaning - informal sector)

The activity generating the emissions is treatment of waste plastic, consumer electronics, manual dismantling, sorting and cleaning, informal sector. The Reference Product is waste plastic, consumer electronics, sorted. The collected plastic scrap is dismantled and segregated by recyclers. The material is segregated and sorted to ensure uniformity of the type of the plastic being recycled. Various methods such as salt water bath technique (density separation), identification through the smell of burning plastics, brittleness of the plastics and so on are used to identify and segregate different types of plastics 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/21607/documentation