Emission Factor

White lined chipboard carton (market for)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is market for white lined chipboard carton. The reference product is white lined chipboard carton. White Lined Chipboard WLC (also known as GT /GD /UD) is a packaging grade of board used to manufacture cartons. It is typically made using predominantly recovered paper or recovered fibres, but may incoroprate some virgin fibres. It is manufactured in a number of layers, each of which use selected grades of raw materials. It may have up to three layers of coating on the top or printing surface and one layer on the reverse. It is used in a range of applications such as frozen and chilled foods, cereals, shoes, tissues, toys. The board is converted into a carton at a converting site which typically includes a printing process and cutting/creasing of the board into carton blanks, ready for delivery to and erection by the packer/filler. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. 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/23899/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameWhite lined chipboard carton (market for)
SectorMaterials and Manufacturing
CategoryPaper and Cardboard
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
2018
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kg
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
paper_and_cardboard-type_white_lined_chipboard_carton_market_for_white_lined_chipboard_carton
UUID
fce21b91-99ff-4422-8dab-27b840cb2a50
Code Snippet
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