Emission Factor

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

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is treatment of waste plastic, consumer electronics, dismantling, sorting and cleaning, formal 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/21672/documentation

PropertyValue
NameWaste plastic - consumer electronics - sorted (treatment of waste plastic - dismantling - sorting and cleaning - formal sector)
SectorWaste
CategoryWaste Management
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.12
Region
Unit Type
Year
2017
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_waste_plastic_consumer_electronics_sorted_treatment_of_waste_plastic_consumer_electronics_dismantling_sorting_and_cleaning_formal_sector-disposal_method_na
UUID
d73b3121-2b4d-49a1-a2c8-1a480ead2df4
Code Snippet
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