Waste collection and sorting emission factors

Collection, transfer and sorting of waste. From 2 libraries, filed in one model so one publisher's factor compares with another's.

CategoryWaste treatment
Factors
24
Libraries
2
With their own page
1
Units with a page
kg
Largest library

22 factors, 92%

What the factor page says

One chart per unit, since a kilogram and a kWh do not compare. Colour is the boundary, what the factor counts; every row also names it.

Cradle to distribution gate

Per kg

ICM puts Disposal, building, plaster board, gypsum plaster, to sorting plant at 0.031 kgCO₂e/kg (Cradle to distribution gate, 2015), the only factor page in this unit.

Source: the published factor pages, catalogue version 591.

Who publishes these factors

2 libraries publish them. Each name opens the library's page.

ICM (22) and USEEIO (2) publish all of them.

Source: open-climate.ai catalogue, version 591, coverage summed over libraries.

Every factor page

Sorted by library. Each factor is also on its library's page.

ActivityLibraryRegionBoundaryValueYear
Disposal, building, plaster board, gypsum plaster, to sorting plantICMAustraliaCradle to distribution gate0.031 kgCO₂e/kg2015

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