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
recycling plastics
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Re: recycling plastics
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:
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:
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Re: recycling plastics
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
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
There has been some work done in the US on recycling plastics.
http://plastics.americanchemistry.com/E ... -Resin.pdf
http://plastics.americanchemistry.com/E ... -Resin.pdf
Re: recycling plastics
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
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
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