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Emission factor from Plastics Recyclers Europe v1.0

Recycled HDPE - pellets

EU27 plus Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom · Cradle to gate · Any year

Each kilogram counts as 0.823 kg CO₂e up to the factory gate, including 0.561 for gate to gate.

Value for any year

0.823kgCO₂e/kg

Net total: fossil, biogenic and land use · GWP100 · AR6

FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂full carbon balance

One value, for any year

Plastics Recyclers Europe sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.

Reference year 2022

Region
EU27 plus Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom
Boundary
Cradle to gate
Data quality
Medium
Licence
Open · CC BY 4.0

Where 0.823 comes from

0.561 of it sits inside the total, 0.823, and is never added to it. The other 0.262 is not published as a part of its own.

Reporting this kilogram under the GHG Protocol

Scope 3, category 1 0.823

Goods and services you buy are Scope 3, category 1, purchased goods and services.

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Materials › Polymers and rubber · EU27 plus Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom · per kg · Average

Cradle to gate · Net total · AR6

Boundary
Cradle to gate
Raw materials, inbound transport, fuel supply, fuel combustion, manufacturing, purchased energy, capital goods and infrastructure
GWP method
IPCC AR6, 100-year horizon
Not on the record; inferred by open-climate.ai · impact method EF 3.1
CO₂e basis
Net totalFossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂full carbon balance
Not split by gas; CO₂e only
Life cycle
Upstream: coveredProduction: partly coveredDownstream: not coveredEnd of life: not covered

Medium quality · Open licence · Any year

What this number covers

What Plastics Recyclers Europe counts in the figure for one kilogram, phase by phase.

  1. Upstream

    • Transport to the plant
    • Raw materials
    • Fuel supply chain
    Included

  2. Production

    • Fuel combustion
    • Manufacturing
    • Purchased electricity and heat
    Partly included

  3. Also counted

    • Plant and equipment
    • Infrastructure
    Included

  4. Your record

    1 kg in your records. The factor is per kg.

    = 0.823

Outside this boundary

  • Packaging
  • Installation
  • Maintenance
  • Transport to the border
  • Retail
  • Use
  • End of life
  • Recycling credit
  • Overheads and services

Plastics Recyclers Europe does not count any of this in the figure for one kilogram.

Gases

Plastics Recyclers Europe publishes this factor as CO₂e only, with no split by gas. The CO₂e counts fossil, biogenic and land-use carbon together.

From Plastics Recyclers Europe's record to a comparable factor

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The total and its parts

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You are here · the totalRecycled HDPE, pellets, cradle to gate0.823
Gate to gateScope 3, cat. 10.56168.2% of the totalOpen

About this factor

From Plastics Recyclers Europe

What it is

Production of 1 kg of mechanically recycled HDPE pellets, obtained from post-industrial and post-consumer packaging, agricultural and construction wastes after collection and sorting, at gate, unpackaged, representing 2.86% of European production

Where it applies

Data was collected from 10 sites in 2022 in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland, represents the recycling of post- industrial and post-consumer packaging, agricultural and construction wastes, and 2.86% of the European installed mechanical recycling capacity of those waste streams.

Source and licence

Publisher
Plastics Recyclers Europe / GreenDelta GmbH
Library
Plastics Recyclers Europe v1.0
Record
EcoProfile_rHDPE_pellets_EU_c2g
Published
3 September 2025
Open the record at Plastics Recyclers Europe
CC BY 4.0 Open

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

Credit it with this lineSource: Plastics Recyclers Europe and GreenDelta GmbH, "EcoProfiles of mechanically recycled plastics", PRIMUS project (Horizon Europe GA No. 101057067), v1.0, 2025. Licensed CC BY 4.0. https://nexus.openlca.org/database/EcoProfiles%20Recycled%20Plastics
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Cite this factor

Source: Plastics Recyclers Europe and GreenDelta GmbH, "EcoProfiles of mechanically recycled plastics", PRIMUS project (Horizon Europe GA No. 101057067), v1.0, 2025. Licensed CC BY 4.0. https://nexus.openlca.org/database/EcoProfiles%20Recycled%20Plastics. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/plastics_recyclers_europe/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-plasticsrecycler-recycled_hdpe_pellets-eu27_3-kg-cradle_to_gate-8beac3d0/?v=efv1-8812a4058118c570996f4dca99ccadbc

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