AFTERLIFE

This is a simplified educational simulation. It does not represent a complete industrial lifecycle assessment for any specific region or facility.

Assumptions

• Mass and material composition are fixed illustrative values.
• Transport distances, energy factors and recovery efficiencies are model parameters, not measured field data.
• Location, infrastructure quality and contamination rates are absorbed into efficiency ranges.
• Second-life products inherit a fraction of residual material and restart a simplified cycle.

Core equations (illustrative)

emissions ≈ distance × factor × massFactor
energy ≈ mass × processEnergyFactor
recovered = input × recoveryEfficiency
lost = input − recovered
water ≈ mass × waterFactor

Uncertainty

Real outcomes vary with local collection systems, sorting technology, market demand for recyclate, energy grid carbon intensity and user behaviour. Changing any assumption can change the ranking of pathways.

MODEL VERSION 1.0 · “Changing the assumptions can change the result.”