ecoinvent is a not-for-profit association that provides a background database for life cycle assessment. It contains datasets covering sectors including agriculture and animal husbandry, building and construction, chemicals and plastics, energy, forestry and wood, metals, textiles, transport, touristic accommodation, waste treatments and recycling, and water supply. The company offers datasets for modeling human activities or processes, information on the industrial or agricultural process they model, measuring the natural resources withdrawn from the environment, the emissions released to the water, soil, and air, the products demanded from other processes, and co-products and wastes produced.