Plastics Europe
Summary | ||
Name of source | Eco-Profiles of the European Plastics Industry | |
Provider | PlasticsEurope (Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe) | |
Summary text | Life Cycle Inventories (LCI), Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) of high volume bulk polymers, widely used engineering plastics, and standard plastics conversion processes of the European Plastics Industry. | |
Contact | Aafko Schanssema (aafko.schanssema@plasticseurope.org) | |
Licensing | Free | |
Language(s) | English | |
Website | www.plasticseurope.org/plastics-sustainability/ life-cycle-thinking.aspx |
Access – data formats and accessibility | ||
File type | HTML (web) access to zip files containing xls, csv, ppt, doc, and pdf files | |
Software needs | Microsoft office, Adobe Reader |
Contents – breadth and depth of datasets | ||
Age | 1993-2010 | |
Geography | Europe | |
Original Data Source(s) | Detailed environmental data on the processes operated by PlasticsEurope member companies | |
Other Databases Included | ELCD , Ecoinvent, and other equivalent databases | |
Life cycle stages | Mainly cradle-to-factory gate | |
Modeling approach | Process (bottom-up) | |
Emissions results | GWP and separate GHGs (plus other impact categories) | |
Number of datasets | about 100 | |
Main topics | Plastics | |
Other topics | Electricity; Natural gas based fuels; Crude oil based fuels; Inorganic chemicals |
Data transparency – what metadata is provided for each dataset? | ||
System boundaries | Yes | |
Data Types | Process | |
Allocation Methods | Yes | |
Technology | Yes | |
Data year | Yes | |
Original source | No, data obtained from unnamed member companies | |
Uncertainty | No |
Quality – is information provided on data quality? | ||
Data quality score | No | |
Quality assurance | No | |
Standards compliant | Yes, datasets from 2006 are compliant to ISO 14040-44 series of standards |