Introduction

Despite the technicality of modelling product EoL, the EoL process itself will vary greatly depending on the country and their given methods of waste handling.

For example, whilst plastic in some countries may be part of municipal material recycling schemes, in other countries it might be treated by incineration with or without energy recovery, landfill or all processes happening in parallel in varying proportions.

While production waste can easily be assigned to a specific county and its waste handling approaches (through the location of your site or your supplier) the product EoL is harder to determine. Your product might be used across multiple countries with multiple differences in waste handling. So it is safe to assume that most EoL modelling will require multiple scenarios.

To some extend assumptions need to be made. This can be the focus on one particular country or region, or the expected best or worst case scenarios etc.

Makersite can support you in the process of defining the best possible product EoL. During automatic or semi-automated imports of Bill of Materials, predefined EoL scenarios can automatically be assigned to your models. This initial effort can, if requested, be part of your system implementation.

The End of Life of products brings with it different counties EoL fees or production waste handling fees. Both modelling options are provided in Makersite to not only include the environmental impact but also the costs.

Makersite includes several hundred different, fully transparent EoL datasets representing the different technologies of waste treatment:

All datasets provided in our premium data are modelled in accordance to the various LCA standards. This is important to consider, as this allows you to simply reuse the data to create your own models.

Some data sets represent specific waste mixes and their treatment, e.g. "Industrial waste handling" or "Hazardous Waste Treatment",....
These datasets represent average waste handling or one specific treatment in a specific region of the world.

Waste data is also tailored to specific materials considering their properties and common waste handling approaches.
See the screenshot below for some examples.

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