Plastics production data from PlasticsEurope, TextileExchange and IRSG - #66
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…absolute consumption per sector and polymer, the second the splits
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This PR introduces major changes to the plastics input data generation.
There are three different type of plastics for which production data is obtained from the following sources:
These plastic types will now be differentiated throughout the historical MFA in remind-mfa, which is why I added the dimension "type" to the production output.
To split the plastics types further into polymers and to allocate their use to sectors, a dataset from Gao & Cabrera (10.1016/j.resconrec.2025.108518) with plastics consumption by sector and polymer is used. Polymers are mapped onto the three plastics types and the share of each sector x polymer combination within each type is calculated. Note that there are some differences with regards to the sector and polymer categories of OECD (e.g. "Others" are now split into "Other thermoplastics" and "Other thermosets", "Fibres" are further differentiated etc.).
Plastics trade flow mappings are adjusted to match the new polymer and sector categories, and the new type dimension is added here as well.
HVC input ratio and carbon content source data and calculations are adjusted to match the new polymer and sector categories.
Minor other changes and improvements:
calcPlTradeandcalcStTradethat were introduced since backcasting takes place within the aggregation function and years added there were not taken into account when checking the "years" parameter of the calcOutput call.end_historicyear infullMFA.