Description: technologyComment of polyethylene terephthalate production, granulate, amorphous, recycled (Europe without Switzerland): No comment present
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Comment: This is a market activity. Each market represents the consumption mix of a product in a given geography, connecting suppliers with consumers of the same product in the same geographical area. Markets group the producers and also the imports of the product (if relevant) within the same geographical area. They also account for transport to the consumer and for the losses during that process, when relevant. This is the market for 'polyethylene terephthalate, granulate, amorphous, recycled', in the geography of Europe without Switzerland. This is a constrained market for consequential system model, for attributional system models, this is a regular market. In the case of consequential system model, details about the marginal consumer can be found in the comment of the conditional exchange (by-product). Transport from producers to consumers of this product in the geography covered by the market is included. 'polyethylene terephthalate, granulate, amorphous, recycled', is a plastic product of fossil origin, it is not biodegradable and it is a thermoplastic material. This product consists of 100% recycled material originating from used PET. The product is used in the following applications and sectors: The quality of the recycled PET can have the same quality with the virgin one, depending on the recycling process followed. It is used for the preparation coatings, saturated and unsaturated polyester resins, alkyd resins, polyurethane dispersions (PUD), melamine formaldehyde resins, textile dyes, softeners in textile finishing, and binders for paints, etc., with similar properties of ordinary ones prepared from its corresponding monomers. Recycled PET fibres are used for geotextiles and for the filling of pillows, cushions, etc. High quality recycled PET is also used for food packaging. This market is supplied by the following activities with the given share: polyethylene terephthalate production, granulate, amorphous, recycled, Europe without Switzerland: 1.0 generalComment of polyethylene terephthalate production, granulate, amorphous, recycled (Europe without Switzerland): The functional unit represents the production of 1 kg of polyethylene terephthalate granulate, recycled, amorphous. This process delivers the byproduct waste polethylene, unsorted, for recycling. Energy demand and auxiliary materials of recycling process was extrapolated from the production of recycled PET granulate in the USA Most of the reporting facilities receive postconsumer PET as individual resin bales. The bales must be broken down and the material sorted to remove foreign material. The sorted materials may or may not go through a pre-washing stage before they are granulated to flake. Some amount of reclaimed resin is received at the facility already in flake form. This flake may be clean or dirty, but all reclaimed flake is washed to market specifications as part of the reclaimer processing operations. This is most often achieved with a caustic wash, but different reclaimers reported using a variety of washing chemicals including surfactants, defoamers, and wetting agents. Even though the incoming material has undergone some presorting before it is received, other materials are mixed in with the PET. About 80 percent of the weight of incoming material ends up as recycled PET resin. Unusable contaminants represent over 200 pounds of solid wastes per thousand pounds of useful output The additional energy required to convert 1,000 pounds of recycled PET flake to resin pellets (218 kWh) is already included in the inventory. The PET recycling data do not include solid stating to convert the resin to a bottle-ready state. If the recycled resin data are being used in a life cycle inventory for the production of bottles, the practitioner constructing the model may need to add energy for solid stating of the recycled PET resin.
Origin: /Bund/UBA/ProBas
Tags: Polyethylenterephthalat ? Granulat ? Schweiz ? Europa ? Materials recovery ? Waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery ? Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities ?
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Language: Deutsch
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