Recycling ratio irrelevant (in ecoinvent database)?

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gebbissimo1
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Recycling ratio irrelevant (in ecoinvent database)?

Post by gebbissimo1 » 20 Oct 2013 16:35

Dear all,

I was investigating today at how the production of a car is modeled in the ecoinvent v3 database, more specifically the recycling of the passenger car.The question is not specific to the ecoinvent database, however. Essentially, the production is modeled as followed:

... -> iron scrap -> steel -> car production -> car recycling -> iron scrap -> ...

Now, to my understanding the benefit of recycling comes in ONLY at the steel production process. Here, iron ore is replaced by iron scrap. Now, if that is right, it wouldn't affect the LCIA much whether 50% or 100% of the steel in the car is recycled. Is this thought correct?

Best regards
Christian Gebbe

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