Reference product: waste plastic, mixture [kg]
Location: BR - Brazil
This market dataset models the disposal mix for 1 kg of waste plastic, mixture in Brazil using country-specific data. The mix is composed by the following technologies: 3% of open burning, 8% of open dump, 88% of unsanitary landfill, 1% of municipal incineration. Values are rounded without decimals. If a technology is listed, it participates in the technology mix. The transport from the production site of the waste to the different treatment facilities where the waste is treated is accounted here. Collection of the waste is included in the transport estimate, reflecting transport distances fromecoinvent default transport model. There are no losses considered in the dataset.
ecoinvent default transport model: available online at ecoinvent's website, https://www.ecoinvent.org/support/documents-and-files/documents-and-fil…
Estimated based on UN statistics, data on plastic production from Plastics Europe, and information from Riber, 2008.
[This dataset has been generated using the system model "Allocation, cut-off by classification". A system model describes how activity datasets are linked to form product systems. The allocation cut-off system model subdivides multi-product activities by allocation, based on a physical properties, economic, mass or other properties. By-products of waste treatment processes are cut-off, as are all by-products classified as recyclable. Markets in this model include all activities in proportion to their current production volume.
Version 3 of the ecoinvent database offers three system models to choose from. For more information, please visit: https://www.ecoinvent.org/database/system-models-in-ecoinvent-3/system-…)]