The economic assessment of the environmental and social impacts generated by a light packaging and bulky waste sorting and treatment facility in Spain: a circular economy example

Environmental Sciences Europe

Table 5 Net emissions of CO₂ eq. generated by the STF in 2017.

Material	Amount of materials recovered (ton)	Net emissions by type of material (ton of CO₂ eq./ton of recycled material)	Total net emissions by recovered material (ton of CO₂ eq)
Plastic HDPE	1451	− 1.530	− 2220
Plastic PET	5495	− 3.400	− 18,683
Plastic LDPE	2700	− 2.900	− 7830
Plastic Mix	2597	− 0.788	− 2047
Glass	93	− 0.280	− 26
Steel	2822	− 0.940	− 2653
Aluminium	552	− 11.640	− 6425
Cardboard	98	− 0.320	− 31
Wood	48,045	− 0.619	− 29,740
Avoided CO₂ emissions			− 69,655