WRATE
WRATE (Waste and Resources Assessment Tool for the Environment) is a 'Life Cycle Assessment' (LCA) software tool for comparing different management systems treating Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). There are other LCA tools; however, none offer the same scope of waste technologies that are provided by WRATE or have the level of sophistication of technical development.
WRATE has been used to convert the site process data collected by the Waste Technologies Data Centre (WTDC) into 40 life cycle assessments. WRATE includes the processes environmental costs and benefits of resources used, transport and the operational impacts of materials, and energy treated downstream from WTDC processes. It includes the ecoinvent v1.2 database that is used to estimate the life cycle costs for the materials and energy that are used or recovered by processes.
WRATE is publicly owned by the Environment Agency. The Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for the software and data are exclusive to the Environment Agency. Consent must be obtained from the Environment Agency for use of the data in third party applications. The ecoinvent background data in the tool is exclusive to the Ecoinvent Centre.
- Users and applications
Anticipated users of and applications for the WRATE software. - How WRATE works
- Obtaining WRATE software
- Demonstration version
The demonstration version of WRATE software. - Download updates
- Training
- Service desk support
