Location: CH - Switzerland
This is a renaming activity linking recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET), bottle grade, granulate to the generic market for bottle grade PET granulate.
The transport distances are taken for commodity class NTS 08 (Chemicals, chemical products, and man-made fibers; rubber and plastic products; nuclear fuel)
from a model based on statistics on transport of goods in Switzerland (Valsasina, 2016, Default transport data per commodity group for Switzerland, ecoinvent, www.ecoinvent.org).
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.