Scrap lead acid battery (market for scrap lead acid battery)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product 'scrap lead acid battery' is a solid waste under the category of industrial wastes. It is primarily generated in battery production and agricultural machinery production. 'scrap lead acid battery' contain the following fractions: 100% lead acid battery. By the database default (and per unit of reference product) 'scrap lead acid battery' 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 scrap lead acid battery remelting. 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 Recyclable. The activity type is market activity. The reference product amount is 1.