Eco-efficiency in the production chain of Dutch semi-hard cheese

Middelaar, C.E. van; Berentsen, P.B.M.; Dolman, M.A.; Boer, I.J.M. de

doi:10.1016/j.livsci.2011.03.013

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“…É o somatório da energia retirada da natureza para cumprir o sistema de produto analisado (ZANGHELINI, 2013 leiras dos supermercados, a fase da produção do leite é a principal fonte de impacto ambiental em toda a cadeia dos produtos lácteos (GUIGNARD et al, 2009;NILSSON et al, 2010;VAN MIDDELAAR et al, 2011). Assim, produtos que requerem maior quantidade de sólidos do leite por quilo de produto geram necessariamente maior quantidade de emissões ao ambiente (DJEKIC et al, 2014;THRANE;HERMANSEN, 2014).…”

Section: Demanda Acumulada De Energiaunclassified

Avaliação do Ciclo de Vida na bovinocultura leiteira e as oportunidades ao Brasil

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Filho

Ruviaro

et al. 2017

Eng. Sanit. Ambient.

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RESUMO: A Avaliação do Ciclo de Vida (ACV) é uma ferramenta capaz de estimar o potencial de emissões e apontar as fases críticas de um determinado produto ou processo em todo o seu ciclo de vida. O objetivo deste trabalho foi resumir os principais resultados das pesquisas e estudos de caso em ACV relacionados à bovinocultura leiteira nacional e internacional, de 2008 a 2014, e realizar uma análise crítica das categorias de impacto abordadas com maior frequência pela literatura: mudança climática, acidificação, eutrofização, uso da terra e demanda de energia. De todas as fases, a produção de leite na fazenda é onde ocorre a maior parte das emissões. Os resultados apontam que os pontos críticos da bovinocultura leiteira são as emissões entéricas, produção e uso de fertilizante, uso de esterco, produção e transporte de concentrado, e a baixa produtividade animal. Em geral, a categoria de mudança climática foi contraditória com as demais categorias, razão pela qual não deve ser considerada sozinha em avaliações de impacto ambiental. No Brasil, a intensificação na produção à base de pasto apresenta-se como uma estratégia de redução de impactos, uma vez que diminui a necessidade do uso de insumos de base não renovável e aumenta o sequestro de carbono via fotossíntese.

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Avaliação do Ciclo de Vida na bovinocultura leiteira e as oportunidades ao Brasil

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Filho

Ruviaro

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Eng. Sanit. Ambient.

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“…Analyzed dairy products are fluid milk, such as fluid milk in the US ) and fluid milk in Italy (Fantin et al 2012), or butter, such as Italian butter (Bianconi et al 1998;Masoni et al 1998) and butter in the UK, Germany, and France (Nilsson et al 2010), or yogurt, like the Spain one (Gonz alez-Garc ıa et al 2013a). Furthermore, there are LCAs on the cheese lifecycle, some of them consider the production of cheese, such as Dutch semi-hard cheese production (van Middelaar et al 2011), Portuguese mature cheese production (Gonz alez-Garc ıa et al 2013b), Serbian cheese production (Djekic et al 2014) and Swedish cheese production (Flysj€ o et al 2014), but others consider the whole lifecycle, including consumption, such as Swedish semi-hard cheese (Berlin 2002), world-wide cheese (Guinard et al 2009), cheddar cheese and mozzarella cheese in the US (Kim et al 2013). In some LCAs on cheese the functional unit is kg of cheese as sold (Berlin 2002;Gonz alez-Garc ıa et al 2013b) or others use kg of dry matter consumed (Kim et al 2013).…”

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“…The application of just one allocation strategy is not sufficient for decision making, considering the influence of allocation strategy on the LCA results, thus a comparison of different allocation strategies is crucial and suggested in order to consider LCA as a decision support tool (Luo et al 2009). Economic allocation strategy (based on the revenue from each plant product) was used by Berlin (2002), Nilsson et al (2010), van Middelaar et al (2011 and Fornasari (2013). Kim et al (2013) performed a LCA study where economic allocation and milk solids allocation strategies (base on milk solids content of each plant product) were applied, while the impacts have been totally assigned to cheese without using allocation strategy in Gonz alez-Garc ıa, Hospido et al (2013).…”

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The environmental analysis of asiago PDO cheese: a case study from farm gate-to-plant gate

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Kim

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Italian Journal of Animal Science

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A farm gate-to-plant gate life cycle assessment was performed to estimate the environmental impact of Asiago Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) cheese, the fourth most produced Italian PDO cheese. One manufacturing plant were surveyed for primary data. Emphasis was given to manufacturing processes, wherein environmental hotspots were identified. However the farm phase was discussed in order to obtain a clear prospect of Asiago cheese production. Inputs and outputs at the plant, such as cheese ingredients, fuels, electricity, water, cleaning agents, packaging, waste, and associated transport were included. Asiago cheese was the main product and co-products were other cheeses and liquid whey. Raw milk, other materials and energy flows were allocated using economic allocation strategy, while salt was attributed using plant specific information. Scenario analysis was about allocation strategies and time of cheese aging. SimaPro # 8.1.1 was the modelling software. Ecoinvent V R v3.1 database was used for upstream processes. Climate change and energy consumption per kg of Asiago cheese was 10.1 kg CO 2 -eq and 70.2 MJ, respectively. Uncertainty analysis gave 95% confidence interval of 6.2-17.5 kg CO 2 -eq and 41.8-115 MJ per kg of Asiago cheese. The main impact driver was raw milk production. At the plant, electricity and fuels usage, refrigerants, packaging and wastewater treatment had the highest contribution to the overall impacts, except for fresh water eutrophication where wastewater treatment had the largest impact. Energy and fuel consumption were the crucial "hot spots" to focus on for efficiency and mitigation procedures at plant. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…from 'cradle-to-grave.' Going beyond the mass balance principle of MFA, LCA is often used to identify ecological 'hotspots', elements with a high contribution to a product's ecological impact (De Haes, 2002;Van Middelaar et al, 2011). By providing a holistic and systematic overview of embodied resources and emissions, it is routinely used to compare the potential environmental impact of two or more products (Thrane and Schmidt, 2007).…”

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“…Thomassen et al, 2009Thomassen et al, , 2008Van Middelaar et al, 2011). While the ISO standards suggest treatment of capital goods as integral parts of a product system, the justification for such omission hinges on the fact that due to their often long lifespans and the many different products and socio-economic activities utilizing the same infrastructure, the resources and emissions embodied in the capital goods attributable to a unit (1 kg) of a particular product is not only difficult to estimate but would, if done, turn out to be negligible.…”

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The unequal exchange of Dutch cheese and Kenyan roses: Introducing and testing an LCA-based methodology for estimating ecologically unequal exchange

Oulu

2015

Ecological Economics

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The theory of ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) posits that international trade is structurally organized in a manner that allows a net transfer of resources from peripheral developing to core industrialized countries. The consequence, it is argued, is under-development in the periphery and augmented productive capacity in the core. EUE thus challenges the neoliberal free-market argument that exchange at market prices is symmetric and fair. An LCA-based methodology for estimating EUE that holds constant the variable market price is introduced and tested on contemporary trade of Dutch cheese and Kenyan coffee and roses. Specifically, the exchange of embodied land, water, energy, global warming potential, and labor is assessed. The results confirm the theory's hypothesis. At a fixed market price, more embodied Kenyan resources are exchanged for less Dutch resources. However, Kenyan roses give different results from coffee. EUE between countries can only be conclusively determined by considering the total biophysical trade balance, but by calculating quantities of embodied resources per unit of exchange value, it is possible to detect unequal exchange even at the level of individual commodities. While integration of biophysical metrics alongside monetary valuation is recommended, ultimately, rethinking the structure, policies and politics of international trade is necessary.

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Eco-efficiency in the production chain of Dutch semi-hard cheese

Cited by 80 publications

References 21 publications

Avaliação do Ciclo de Vida na bovinocultura leiteira e as oportunidades ao Brasil

Avaliação do Ciclo de Vida na bovinocultura leiteira e as oportunidades ao Brasil

The environmental analysis of asiago PDO cheese: a case study from farm gate-to-plant gate

The unequal exchange of Dutch cheese and Kenyan roses: Introducing and testing an LCA-based methodology for estimating ecologically unequal exchange

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