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Emission factor from Plastics Recyclers Europe v1.0

Recycled PP - flakes

United Kingdom · Gate to gate · Any year

Each kilogram counts as 0.437 kg CO₂e. Plastics Recyclers Europe gives one figure, for use in any year.

Value for any year

0.437kgCO₂e/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
United Kingdom GB
Boundary
Gate to gate
Data quality
Medium
Licence
Open · CC BY 4.0

Where 0.437 comes from

Published as one number

Plastics Recyclers Europe prints this factor as a single figure, with no parts to add up and no split by gas.

Reporting this kilogram under the GHG Protocol

Scope 3, category 1 0.437

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

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Materials › Polymers and rubber · United Kingdom · per kg · Average

Gate to gate · Net total · AR6

Boundary
Gate to gate
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: partly 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
    • Fuel supply chain
    Partly 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.

    = 0.437

Outside this boundary

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

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

From Plastics Recyclers Europe's record to a comparable factor

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About this factor

From Plastics Recyclers Europe

What it is

Production of 1 kg of mechanically recycled PP flakes, obtained from WEEE and household waste, at gate, unpackaged, representing British production

Where it applies

Data was collected from 5 sites in 2022 in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, represents the recycling of a mix of household, industrial and commercial wastes as well as ELV-WEEE wastes, and 5.58% 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_rPP_flakes_GB_g2g
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
A plain reading of the licence, not legal advice. The licence text prevails.

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_pp_flakes-gb-kg-gate_to_gate-cdcf35b1/?v=efv1-28bc26ed065128961e53df8ee00c180c

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