Table 1 Inventories extracted from the ecoinvent and local database.

From: Cross-country life cycle assessment of construction and demolition waste recycling with evaluation of energy use, carbon emissions, and regional trade-offs

Process

Ecoinvent inventory

Functional unit (FU)

CED (MJ/FU)

CO2eq

CO2 (kg/FU)

(kg/FU)

Electricity production and transmission

Electricity, medium voltage, CN, market group for, Cut-off, U

1 kWh

10.7

1.02

0.856

Diesel production

Diesel, GLO, market group for, Cut-off, U

1 kg

53.6

0.485

0.439

Road transport (with diesel consumption and corresponding atmospheric emissions)

Market for transport, freight, lorry 16–32 metric ton, EURO6, RoW

1 tkm

2.7

0.169

0.163

Production of wood pellets

Market for wood pellet, measured as dry mass, RoW, Cut-off, U

1 kg

9.78

0.159

0.144

Waste disposal in inert landfill

Treatment of inert waste, inert material landfill, RoW, Cut-off, U

1 kg

0.158

0.00517

0.0049

Disposal of waste in landfill

Treatment of municipal solid waste, sanitary landfill, RoW, Cut-off, U

1 kg

0.374

0.614

0.0223

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