Sustainable Apparel Coalition

Description

Production of PTFE using fluorocarbons -Polytetrafluoroethylene is a stable and inert synthetic fluoropolymer with a composition of carbon and fluorine. PTFE is used for durable waterproof barriers in apparel and in a wide variety of products including medical devices, communications technology and energy efficient transportation.

Impacts

	Impact area	MSI Score
	Global Warming	11.4
	Eutrophication	2.8
	Water Scarcity	0.7
	Abiotic Resource Depletion, Fossil Fuels	15.2
	Chemistry	Scored per material rather than production stage. Click on "Return to Material", and learn about Chemistry scoring under "Chemistry Certifications".

Modeling Notes

Polytetrafluoroethylene granulate (PTFE) Mix. Includes 10% loss of raw material to account for yield losses. Also includes 1000km inbound shipping distance to account for shipment of raw materials.

Meta information

Primary Source: GaBi 2019. Service Pack 39, thinkstep AG, Leinfelden-Echterdingen
Last Publication or Review date: 2018
Geography: Global/generic
Data Generator: thinkstep

Applicable Materials

Material	Impact benchmarkimpactblend components
Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) plastic	49 Plastics

Data quality

Data Quality	Value	Description
Precision	Good	10% to 20%	2
Time Representativeness	Excellent	Data are not older than 4 years with respect to the release date or latest review date	1
Geographical Representativeness	Excellent	The processes included in the dataset are fully representative for the geography stated in the title and metadata	1
Technological Representativeness	Excellent	The technologies covered in the dataset are exactly the one(s)modeled	1
Average			1.25

Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) plastic, fossil fuel based