Location: BE - Belgium
This market dataset models the disposal mix for 1 kg of waste polyethylene terephtalate in Belgium using country-specific data. The mix is composed by the following technologies: 0% of open burning, 2% of sanitary landfill, 98% 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 from eurostat. There are no losses considered in the dataset. Reference: eurostat, 2018, Summary of annual road freight transport by type of operation and type of transport (1 000 t, Mio Tkm, Mio Veh-km), Retrieved online at: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/transport/data/database on 05 of June 2018
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.