
Title: Waste incineration of plastics (unspecified) fraction in municipal solid waste (MSW); average European waste-to-energy plant, without collection, transport and pre-treatment; at plant (Location: EU-27)
The European average Waste-to-Energy plant (WtE) is defined based on the treatment of average European municipal solid waste (MSW). The thermal treatment of a single waste fraction like paper or plastic or even specific wastes like Polyamide 6 is not done in reality in a WtE plant for MSW. The waste is always homogenized to obtain a relative constant calorific value and to comply with the emission standards. Nonetheless the used model and the used settings for the average MSW allows to attribute the environmental burden (emissions and also resource consumption of auxiliaries) energy production as well as the credits (metal scrap export) to a single fraction or specific waste incinerated within an average MSW. Therefore the LCI data is valid for the treatment of the specific waste within an average MSW (the waste fraction share of the MSW is shown in the pie chart beneath, the elementary composition in the first table beneath). The following technology description explains the settings ...
Simone Fazio | simone.fazio@ec.europa.eu |
David Pennington | david.pennington@ec.europa.eu |
Data access
Issue date | 2006-01-01 |
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Landing page | http://eplca.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ELCD3/showProcess.xhtml?uuid=46d6bd5b-16e1-459c-a018-340f33ed2f72 |
Geographic area | European Union |
Temporal coverage | From: 2006-01-01 – To: 2010-01-01 |
Update frequency | irregular |
Language | English |
Data theme(s) | Environment; Science and technology |
EuroVoc domain(s) | 36 SCIENCE; 52 ENVIRONMENT |
Identifier | http://data.europa.eu/89h/jrc-eplca-46d6bd5b-16e1-459c-a018-340f33ed2f72 |
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