UK Plastics Flows
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Authors
Drewniok, Michal
Gao, Yunhu
Cullen, Jonathan
Cabrera Serrenho, Andre
Description
This dataset resulted from processing UK trade statistics provided by PRODCOM. It contains the input data for the Material Flow Analysis of plastics in the UK, the output plastic data flows for various stations of the UK plastics supply chain, and the code used to process it.
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This dataset contains four files:
TOTAL.xlsx — The output data of UK plastics flows for various stages of the supply chain; all values in kg
ProdClassification.xlsx — Input classification of each PRODCOM product category by end-use application, by stage of supply chain, mass fraction of plastics and polymer composition
Polymer allocation.xlsx — The average allocation of polymers by end-use application of plastics by mass.
Code file.zip — the code file used to process raw data
Keywords
Plastics, Supply chain, United Kingdom
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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/S025308/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/S019111/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/S019111/1)
The authors were supported by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) through CirPlas — The Cambridge Centre for Circular Economy Approaches to Plastic Waste (grant reference EP/S025308/1) and by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in the United Kingdom through UK FIRES (grant reference EP/S019111/1). A part of this study was also supported by EPSRC through TransFIRe (grant reference EP/V054627/1).