Location: US - United States
This is a renaming activity linking recycled polyethylene (PE), high density (HD), granulate to the generic market for HD-PE granulate.
Transport distances for road and rail freight based product category SCTG code 242 in the US BTS Commodity Flow Survey from 2012, US Dep. Of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Air freight was omitted due to assumed low relevance for this product category.
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.