Category 12: End-of-Life Treatment of Sold Products
Emissions from the waste disposal and treatment of products sold by the reporting company at the end of their life.
In brief
Scope 3 Category 12 covers emissions from the waste disposal and treatment of products a company sells at the end of their life, including the total expected end-of-life emissions from all products sold in the reporting year. The boundary includes the Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions of waste management companies handling landfill disposal, incineration, recycling, composting, and wastewater treatment, with transportation and sorting of waste included optionally.
GHG Protocol Reference
The following content is extracted from the GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Accounting and Reporting Standard.
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Category 12 includes emissions from waste disposal and treatment of products sold by your company at the end of their useful life.
Emission Factor Methods
Product-specific
Based on product composition and end-of-life scenarios
Average-data
Global waste treatment factors by material type
Methods range from primary data (left) to modeled estimates (right)
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