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Emission factor from Syke

Ready-mix concrete, C40/50, air-entrained

Finland · EPD total · Any year

Each kilogram counts as 0.166 kg CO₂e: 0.16 up to the factory gate and 0.006 for waste processing.

Value for any year

0.166kgCO₂e/kg

Fossil only · GWP100 · GWP vintage not stated

FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂EN 15804 GWP-fossil

One value, for any year

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

Reference year 2026

Derived by open-climate.ai: the sum of Syke's published parts

Region
Finland FI
Boundary
EPD total
Data quality
MediumRated by us, not by the source
Licence
Open · Syke terms

Where 0.166 comes from

Derived by open-climate.ai

Σ 0.166: Syke prints the two parts separately; open-climate.ai adds them up. carbonation stays beside it.

Reporting this kilogram under the GHG Protocol

This period

Scope 3, category 1 0.16

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

Waste you handle at the end of its life is category 5, waste generated in operations, in the year it happens.

Later, when it happens

At end of life

  • Waste processing Scope 3, category 5 0.006

Outside the scopes, reported separately

  • carbonation −0.022
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Materials › Minerals and aggregates · Finland · per kg · Generic

EPD total · Fossil only

Boundary
EPD total
Raw materials, inbound transport, fuel supply, fuel combustion, manufacturing, packaging, purchased energy and end of life
GWP method
Not stated by the publisher
CO₂e basis
Fossil onlyFossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂EN 15804 GWP-fossil
Not split by gas; CO₂e only
Life cycle
Upstream: coveredProduction: coveredDownstream: partly coveredEnd of life: partly covered

Medium quality · Open licence · Any year

What this number covers

What Syke 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
    • Packaging
    • Purchased electricity and heat
    Included

  3. End of life

    • End of life
    Partly included

  4. Your record

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

    = 0.166

Outside this boundary

  • Retail

Syke does not count any of this in the figure for one kilogram.

Gases

Syke publishes this factor as CO₂e only, with no split by gas. The CO₂e counts fossil carbon only; biogenic CO₂, biogenic methane and land-use carbon are left out.

From Syke's record to a comparable factor

Syke publishes the two parts; open-climate.ai added them up to this total. Here is each field as printed and what open-climate.ai made of it.

The total and its parts

Each part has its own page, with its own years and source record. Never add a part to the total.

You are here · the totalReady-mix concrete, C40/50, air-entrained, EPD total0.166
Cradle to gateScope 3, cat. 10.1696.4% of the totalOpenWaste processingScope 3, cat. 50.0063.6% of the totalOpencarbonationOutside the scopes−0.022Printed beside the total, not in itOpen

About this factor

From Syke

Valmisbetoni valmistetaan sekoittamalla pääraaka-aineet sementti, vesi ja kiviaines määrätyssä suhteessa (annosteluohjeen mukaan). Koostumus vaihtelee, mutta yksinkertainen annostelu sisältää sementtiä noin 12 prosenttia ja kiviainesta noin 80 prosenttia. Kemiallisia seoksia käytetään tuoreen ja kovetetun betonin ominaisuuksien parantamiseen. Betonin sekoittamisen energiankulutus on Suomessa pientä ja raaka-aineiden kuljetuksenkin maltillista. Tärkeimmät ympäristövaikutukset johtuvat raaka-aineiden käytöstä, sementin prosessipäästöistä (kalkkikiven hajoaminen) ja energiaraaka-aineiden käytöstä.

Source and licence

Value
Summed by open-climate.ai from its parts
Publisher
Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)
Library
Syke v1.01.010
Published
25 September 2026
See the source data at Syke
Syke's terms of use Open

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Credit it with this lineSource: CO2data.fi, Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)
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Cite this factor

Source: CO2data.fi, Finnish Environment Institute (Syke). Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/syke/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-syke-readymix_concrete_c4050-fi-kg-epd_total-659255c0/?v=efv1-f55998d372d83d7375642c1782e8d81c

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