Fibre - cotton (fibre production - ginning)

The activity generating the emissions is fibre production, cotton, ginning. The Reference Product is fibre, cotton. The product fibre, cotton refers to cotton lint which is the raw, unprocessed fibre obtained from the cotton plant after the seeds (cottonseed) have been removed during the ginning process. This product is an especially important raw material in the textile sector where it is further processed and spun into yarn. Fibre, cotton comes from conventional farming practices. The term conventional refers to farming practices involving modern agriculatural methods but excluding approaches such as organic or regenerative farming. Conventional production practices do not follow the specifications of existing sustainability programs (including standards, certifications etc.). The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/21279/documentation