Waste plastic - consumer electronics (market for waste plastic - consumer electronics)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product 'waste plastic consumer electronics' is a solid waste under the category of industrial wastes. It is primarily generated in the production of electronic consumer goods. 'waste plastic consumer electronics' contain the following fractions: 100% waste plastics from electronic consumer goods. By the database default (and per unit of reference product) 'waste plastic consumer electronics' has 15.3% water on wet mass basis (84.7% dry matter) and Carbon present is of only fossil origin (83.02% on a dry matter basis). It has a higher heating value of 36.29 MJ/kg. This kind of by-product (recyclable or waste) is generated from ordinary transforming activities and as such can be considered for modelling waste outputs of comparable composition. In the ecoinvent database treatment option/s for this by-product include: deposition (sanitary landfill unsanitary landfill) thermal (municipal incineration) uncontrolled forms of disposal (open burning). Based on the aforementioned treatments this by-product receives it is a non-hazardous waste. This by-product can be modelled on two levels: treatment activity and market activity. The former one refers to the specific technology treating the by-product while the latter level represents a mix of treatments. Users are encouraged to inspect the modelling assumptions of the treatment activities and when selecting the market to additionally inspect the treatment mix. Collection and transportation of this by-product is accounted in the respective market activity users are advised to inspect and modify the average transportation distances for a case specific modelling. The cut-off classification is Waste. The activity type is market activity. The reference product amount is -1.