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Waste Sorting is where you log the building’s sorted waste per fraction — concrete, gypsum, glass, metals, packaging, and so on — so end-of-life and waste-treatment emissions can be calculated against the regulation’s defaults. You can record sortings by hand, bulk-import them from an Excel template, or distribute the project’s mapped material masses across fractions in one go. Open it by clicking the Waste Sorting tab in the Project Dashboard header.
Waste Sorting Inventory page with fractions like Almindelig gips, Asfalt, Beton, Emballagepap, Fibergips, Glas, Glasuld, Jern og metal, and Natursten listed as collapsible groups.

Waste Sorting Inventory grouped by fraction

The available fractions, the default emission factors per fraction, and the Excel template Real-Time LCA generates are all pulled from the project’s country and regulation. See Methodology & Compliance for the rules.

Page layout

The page has two panels: The kg / ton toggle in the top-left changes the unit used for the weights shown across the page. The header strip shows a live % waste on average counter.

Fraction rows

Each fraction in the inventory shows the running total weight, the fraction’s emission factor in kgCO₂-eq, and the resulting kgCO₂-eq/m²/year contribution. Expand a fraction to record sortings against it.

Add a sorting manually

Expand a fraction, fill in the row, and click Add:
  • Name — a label for the sorting (for example, Removal of gypsum, lorry, 12/2025).
  • Pickup date — when the waste was collected.
  • Weight + Unit — the amount of waste in kg or ton.
The fraction’s Fraction Emission factor sits above the form so you can see the unit emission before committing.
Beton fraction expanded with a form for Name, Pickup date, Weight, and Unit, and an Add button.

Add a sorting — Name, Pickup date, Weight, and Unit

Committed sortings appear in the fraction group’s row counter and the totals update.
Almindelig gips and Beton fractions each showing Sortings: 1 with a recorded weight.

Sorting added — the fraction now shows a Sortings count and a weight

You can keep adding sortings to the same fraction — for example, separate pickups across the construction period.
Beton fraction expanded with three Ready-mix concrete sortings logged across different pickup dates.

Multiple sortings against the same fraction

Bulk-import from Excel

For projects with many fractions or pickups, use the Excel template instead of recording rows one by one. Open the Upload Excel file action and click Download Template to get the country-specific spreadsheet. The template has a dropdown column listing the regulation’s fractions.
Upload Excel file modal with a Download Template button and a drop zone for .xlsx.

Upload Excel file modal — start with Download Template

Excel waste-sorting template with the Affaldsfraktion column open showing fractions like Natursten, Beton, Jern og metal, Fibergips, Almindelig gips, Stenuld, Glasuld, Glas, Asfalt, Træ, Plastik, and PVC.

Excel template — Affaldsfraktion column is a dropdown of the regulation's fractions

Fill in one row per sorting — fraction, name, weight, unit, and pickup date — save the file, and drop it back into the upload modal.
Excel template row with Almindelig gips fraction, an Afhentning af gips med lastbil entry, 100.00 weight, kg unit, and 13.12.2025 pickup date.

Filled-in template row

Upload Excel file modal with a waste-sorting-im... .xlsx file attached and a primary Import button.

File attached — click Import to commit

A success toast confirms how many sortings were added, and the affected fractions show the new rows underneath.
Import complete: 1 added toast above the Waste Sorting Inventory with the Almindelig gips fraction expanded to show the imported sorting.

Import complete — affected fractions now show the imported rows

Almindelig gips fraction showing the imported sorting and a Sortings: 1 counter.

Imported sortings show up in the fraction's group total

Distribute mapped materials into a fraction

When you want the project’s actual modeled materials to land in a fraction — instead of (or in addition to) a fixed pickup weight — drag a material card from the Materials panel onto the fraction group. You can drop one material at a time, or enter selection mode and add many at once.
Material card being dragged onto the Beton fraction group with an Add to Beton drop target highlighted.

Dragging a Materials card onto a fraction

When you drop the selection on a fraction, the Add waste sorting to modal opens. Enter a Total Weight or a Percentage — the weight is distributed proportionally across the selected materials based on their relative masses in the project.
Add waste sorting to Beton modal explaining that the two materials selected will share the entered weight proportionally.

Add waste sorting modal — set Total Weight or Percentage

Add waste sorting modal with a Total Weight value entered, Unit kg, and Percentage 0.02.

Modal with values entered — Total Weight is distributed across the selected materials

Filter and sort the Materials panel

The Materials panel has its own filter and sort dropdowns so you can narrow it down before dragging.
Materials panel filter dropdown with Calculation Method, Categories, and Types groups.

Materials filter — narrow by Calculation Method, Categories, or Types

Materials panel sort dropdown with Category, Data Type, Emission, Name (highlighted), and Weight options.

Materials sort — Category, Data Type, Emission, Name, or Weight

Review amounts after a material change

When a mapped material’s mass changes in the project — because the model was updated, a mapping was replaced, or quantities were re-imported — the waste sortings that referenced that material need to be reconciled. The Review Amounts badge in the top-right of the Materials panel lights up with the number of sortings that need a look.
Materials panel header with a Review Amounts (1) primary button highlighted.

Review Amounts badge — number of sortings that need reconciliation

Click it to open the review modal. It lists each affected material with the previous mass, the new mass, and the proposed new sorting weight (kept proportional to the original distribution).
Review Amounts modal showing a Ready-mix concrete material that changed from 192,953.20 kg to 218,357.11 kg, with a proposed adjusted sorting weight and Skip / Update buttons.

Review Amounts modal — preview the proposed updates and click Update to apply

A success toast confirms the changes once applied.
Waste sortings updated toast at the top of the Waste Sorting page.

Waste sortings updated

Custom groupings

If your project tracks a fraction that does not exist in the regulation’s default list, click + Create Custom Grouping at the top of the inventory to add one. Custom groupings behave like any other fraction — you can drag materials onto them and record sortings against them.

Search, sort, and filter

The toolbar above the inventory has the same shape as the other mapping pages:
  • Search inventory — free-text search across fraction names.
  • Sort — order the list by Name, Emission, Sortings, or Waste weight.
  • Filter — narrow by Waste Type.
Waste Sorting Inventory sort dropdown with Name (highlighted), Emission, Sortings, and Waste weight options.

Sort menu — Name, Emission, Sortings, or Waste weight

Waste Sorting Inventory filter dropdown with a Waste Type group.

Filter menu — narrow by Waste Type