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Road wear emissions - passenger car (treatment of)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is treatment of road wear emissions, passenger car. The Reference Product is road wear emissions, passenger car. Road wear emissions, passenger car represents the non-exhaust emissions (tyre, brake, road wear and petrol evaporation emissions) produced by 1kg road wear from average passenger car. It is handled with a treatment process because it models the removal of substances (tyre material) from the technosphere. The Reference Product amount is -1. The cut-off classification is Waste. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/4551/documentation

PropertyValue
NameRoad wear emissions - passenger car (treatment of)
SectorWaste
CategoryWaste Management
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.12
Region
Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent) (ECOINVENT_ROW)
Unit Type
Weight
Year
2012
Year Released
2025
Emission Factor
  • CO2e
    kg/kg
Scopes3.5, 3.12
LCA Activity
source_specific
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
waste_management-type_road_wear_emissions_passenger_car_treatment_of_road_wear_emissions_passenger_car-disposal_method_na
UUID
d1cdbdbf-7275-44f4-8898-fc81694c0ee1
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