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APME 140) (Association of Plastic Manufacturers in Europe): The leading Euro-
pean plastic data collection for the most important bulk plastics. Unfor-
tunately those reports are only available in the form of summaries (highly
aggregated data, small transparency). Important emissions, like, for example,
monomer styrene and vinyl chloride, are not listed separately.
The data represent weighted average values from the most important
European manufacturing plants and -procedures. For strongly varying pro-
duction methods (e.g. emulsion and bulk polymerisation) data to individual
procedures are separately available in short form.
ECOSOL (European LCI Surfactant Study Group with administrative support
of the CEFIC/ECOSOL Sector Group). The complete study 141) – see also
Section 1.5 published 1995 in the magazine ‘Tenside, Surfactants, Deter-
gents’ – covers the most important tensides manufactured in Europe (most
important operational area: surface-active content of detergents) and some
important intermediate products, like alcohols, sulphur, soda and materi-
als based on vegetable oils. The study was commissioned by US-American
company Franklin Associates Ltd. (FAL) and submitted to a peer review
Kl¨ opffer, Grießhammer and Sundstr¨ om (1995) and Kl¨ opffer, Sundstr¨ om
and Grießhammer (1996). The data among others were integrated into a
detergent study at the ¨ Oko-Institut e.V. Freiburg Grießhammer, Bunke and
Gensch (1997) financed by the German Federal Environmental Agency. The
study is supplemented by similar work on zeolites (phosphate replacement
in detergents) and water glass Fawer (1996, 1997), which are other materials
used in detergents. A new version of the ECOSOL data collection is being
prepared by PE International for CEFIC (project ERASM-SLE). 142)
ProBas (process orientated base data for environmental management instru-
ments) a web portal of the German Federal Environmental Agency, Dessau, 143)
linked to a library of LCA data which is also, even primarily, suited for oper-
ational environmental assessment. However for the latter, self procured
location-specific data should be used. Generic data, for example, for elec-
tricity, transportation, upstream materials, and so on, may only be used as
supplement. ProBas has been updated 2012. 144) The CED-data base 145) is also
accessible by ProBas.
GEMIS (total release model of integrated systems) 146) is an important data
source for energy data with emphasis on the European Union. GEMIS was
originally developed by the ¨ Okoinstitut Darmstadt commissioned by the

140) Now: Plastic Europe Association. Boustead, 1992, 1993a,b, 1994a,b, 1995a,b, 1996a, 1997a,b,c;
Boustead and Fawer, 1994; updated versions at http://www.plasticseurope.org.
141) Janzen, 1995; Stalmans et al., 1995.
142) To be published 2014.
143) http://www.probas.umweltbundesamt.de.
144) http://www.probas.umweltbundesamt.de (13 July, 2012).
145) http://www.oeko.de/service/CED.
146) Fritsche et al. (1997); available at ProBas; GEMISAustria: http://www.umweltbundesamt.at/ueberus/
products/gemis.