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Machinery and equipment and Waste and recycling

Waste and recycling buys from Machinery and equipment; waste and recycling depends on machinery and equipment.

Machinery and equipment (industry) and Waste and recycling (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹1.4 per ₹100 · Waste and recycling buys from Machinery and equipment

Waste and recycling buys goods or services from Machinery and equipment; counted through every round of supply, ₹1.4 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹1.4 of every ₹100 of Waste and recycling output, all rounds
  • ₹0.7 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 3 of 5 · Machinery and equipment → Waste and recycling

3 of the enterprise types in Waste and recycling depend on machinery and equipment.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Waste-to-energy, compost and biogas operators: boilers, grates and digesters (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Sorting, shredding and recycling-equipment makers: machine-building sector (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Material recovery facility operators: sorting and baling equipment (criticality 2 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.