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recycling plastics

Posted: 23 Jun 2015 17:49
by Sara
Hi everybody,
I'm running a LCA study and I have to model the end of life stage of a beer bottle. I cannot find in the ecoinvent 3.1 any activity like, for exemple, "treatment of plastic, post-consumer..." or something like these. Can you help me or, at least, can you tell me why such activities aren't present in the ecoinvent for plastics?
Thanks in advance,
kind regards
Sara

Re: recycling plastics

Posted: 25 Jun 2015 11:20
by artur.szilagyi
Hi Sara,
I have no full ecoinvent 3.1 licence (only guest account to the website) but I think you should be able to see "treatment of waste plastic" activities. Are you sure that it is an openLCA related issue?
See the screenshot below:

Re: recycling plastics

Posted: 30 Jun 2015 11:36
by Nachhaltigkeit
this is a dataset for municipal incineration of plastic.
I'm afraid there is no data available in Ecoinvent for recycling plastic. Probably because of non-existing literature about this topic

Re: recycling plastics

Posted: 27 Jul 2015 20:03
by schivlg
There has been some work done in the US on recycling plastics.

http://plastics.americanchemistry.com/E ... -Resin.pdf

Re: recycling plastics

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 21:29
by Sara
I'm sorry for my "late" reply but I thank you all for your answers!
In the end of my work about beer bottle I excluded the impacts related to the plastic fraction recycled; I assumed that the other fraction is treated through incineration and landifilling.
Thanks for the pdf document that you shared, I think it will be very useful to me.
Kind regards to all
sara