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Emission factor from OCCC 2025

Plastic waste - Plastics recycling

Catalunya · End of life · Any year

Each kilogram of this waste sent for recycling counts as 0.0779 kg CO₂e. OCCC gives one figure, for use in any year.

Value for 2020, recycling route

0.0779kgCO₂e/kg

Biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded · GWP100 · GWP vintage not stated

FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories

One value, for any year

OCCC sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.

Reference year 2020

Region
Catalunya ES-CT
Boundary
End of life
Data quality
MediumRated by us, not by the source
Licence
Open · OCCC terms

Where 0.0779 comes from

  • Plastics recycling, the whole route
    3.5 Waste0.0779100%

Σ 0.0779: one published number. OCCC does not split it into the haul and the plastics recycling.

Reporting this kilogram under the GHG Protocol

3.5 Waste 0.0779

Paying for your own waste to be treated is category 5, waste generated in operations, counted in the period you send it.

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What this number covers

The path of one kilogram of waste from your bin to the treatment site. Every step on it is counted; OCCC publishes the route as one number, not step by step.

  1. Treatment

    Treating the waste on the route it is sent down

    Included0.0779

  2. Your waste

    1 kg sent for treatment, weighed as you hand it over.

    = 0.0779

Outside this boundary

  • Producing the raw material
  • Making the product that became waste

Making the product is its own factor.

The factor, standardised

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Waste treatment › Recycling · Catalunya · per kg · Average

End of life · Excl. biogenic CO₂

Boundary
End of life
GWP method
Not stated by the publisher
CO₂e basis
Excl. biogenic CO₂FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories
Not split by gas; CO₂e only
Life cycle
Upstream: not coveredProduction: not coveredDownstream: not coveredEnd of life: covered

Medium quality · Open licence · Any year

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About this factor

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Source and licence

Publisher
Oficina Catalana del Canvi Climàtic (Generalitat de Catalunya)
Library
OCCC 2025 (ed. 2026, v1 2026-06-09)
Published
9 June 2026
OCCC's terms of use Open

The values and their metadata are served in full and may be reused with credit to the publisher.

Es permet la reutilització de documents i dades d'acord amb la Llei 37/2007, sempre que no s'alteri el contingut ni les metadades, no se'n desnaturalitzi el sentit, es citi la font i s'indiqui la data de l'última actualització.
Credit it with this lineOficina Catalana del Canvi Climàtic, Generalitat de Catalunya. Guia pràctica per al càlcul d'emissions de gasos amb efecte d'hivernacle (GEH), any 2025, edició 2026.
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Cite this factor

Oficina Catalana del Canvi Climàtic, Generalitat de Catalunya. Guia pràctica per al càlcul d'emissions de gasos amb efecte d'hivernacle (GEH), any 2025, edició 2026. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/occc_catalonia/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-occccatalonia-residus_plastics-es_ct-kg-end_of_life-d83928e9/?v=efv1-1da528167ea9140c6303485dd5ff59d8

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