Location: RER - Europe
This dataset represents the supply of 1 kg of ethylene dichloride from activities that produce it within the geography RER.
A regional market for Europe [RER] is motivated by the low share (in the range of 0.0%-4.9% of total trade quantities between 2010-2016) of import quantities to EU28 from outside (excluding Norway and Switzerland) the Union. In addition, the export quantities exceeded the import quantities (the ratio export/import was in the range of 12-24545 in the same period). Source: Eurostat database, EU trade since 1988 by HS6 (DS-016893), HS6-code: 290315 - 1,2-DICHLOROETHANE 'ETHYLENE DICHLORIDE', Assessed on: 2018-01-31.
In this market, expert judgement was used to develop product-specific transport distance estimations based on eurostat transport statistics for 2016 (http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database, extracted on the 2018-06-01). See exchange comments for additional details.
Undefined unit processes (UPRs) are the unlinked, multi-product activity datasets that form the basis for all of the system models available in the ecoinvent database. This is the way the datasets are obtained and entered into the database by the data providers. These activity datasets are useful for investigating the environmental impacts of a specific activity (gate-to-gate), without regard to its upstream or downstream impacts.