Improving environmental performances in wine production by a life cycle assessment analysis

Iannone, Raffaele; Miranda, Salvatore; Riemma, Stefano; Marco, Iolanda De

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.04.006

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“…Nevertheless, the energy consumption is the key factor that affects the environmental performance of this phase the most [28]. In fact, this phase can even contribute up to 93% of the total impact [42].…”

Section: Vinificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Life Cycle Assessment Application to the Wine Sector: A Critical Review

Ferrara

Feo

2018

Sustainability

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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a powerful tool that allows evaluation of the environmental performances of a product, service or process considering the whole life cycle or a part of it. In the wine sector, the application of LCA has grown significantly in recent years and several studies have been carried out about this topic that are similar to other research fields. Nowadays, LCA is an important and acknowledged environmental assessment tool but its application to the wine sector is still in a developing phase. For this reason, the present study proposes a critical review of papers dealing with both the wine sector and LCA. The critical review points out that the main wine hotspots are the viticulture phase (mainly due to fuel, fertilizer and pesticides consumption) and the wine primary packaging production (due to glass bottles). Furthermore, the papers taken into consideration have a wide variability in the system boundaries definition as well as a shortage of availability of original and site-specific inventory data. Such key factors are sensitive aspects that have a huge influence on the results of a study and they are also affected by a wide variability: these issues need further scientific contribution through future studies.

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Section: Vinificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Life Cycle Assessment Application to the Wine Sector: A Critical Review

Ferrara

Feo

2018

Sustainability

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“…Although, LCA and LCIA are widely used in studies to assess the life cycle environmental impact of several agriculture and agri-food products including the pilot farms products [24,[27][28][29]31,44,47], the existing literature does not cover neither the total range of impact selected categories to be assessed, nor all the products under study. Nevertheless, through the LCA and LCIA approaches useful information, related with products footprint, could be received.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…LCA has also been used to propose an improved solution to reduce CO 2 emissions of wine production in Italy, taking into consideration vinification, bottling, packaging, distribution and waste disposal treatments [29]. The method can also be used as a tool to address sustainable production and consumption patterns of local policies, and to get knowledge for environmental assessment of a wide agricultural production area [30].…”

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confidence: 99%

Life Cycle Analysis in the Framework of Agricultural Strategic Development Planning in the Balkan Region

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Agricultural sector should be considered, as one of the main economic development sectors in the entire world, while at the same time is responsible for important pollution. The life cycle assessment (LCA) procedure was involved in the agricultural strategic development planning for Balkan region, as a useful tool to identify and quantify potential environmental impacts from the production of apple juice, wine and pepper pesto in three selected sites in Greece, North Macedonia and Bulgaria. These three products were chosen, as are considered as the main economic activities at the areas. The LCA approach covered the entire production line of each product. Based on the LCA results, which comprise the size of six impact categories characterization factors, suggestions were made in order to minimize the footprint of the apples orchard, vineyard and pepper cultivation plots as well as of the production processes of apple juice, wine and pepper pesto as final distribution products. The results indicate that changes in the cultivation and the production must be considered in order to optimize the environmental footprint. Moreover, the whole approach could be useful for agricultural stakeholders, policy makers and producers, in order to improve their products ecological performance, reduce food loss and food waste and increase the productivity of the agricultural sector, while at the same time can improve the three pillars of sustainability through strategy development.

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“…[33] conducted the environmental impact analysis using the LCA method of wood pallet production. [34] studied the environmental impacts of the bottling, packaging, distribution and waste disposal treatment of the wine production in Italy using the LCA analysis and proposed ways to decrease the environmental impacts.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Operational, Economic and Environmental Benefits of Returnable Packaging Under Various Reverse Logistics Arrangements

Katephap¹,

Limnararat²

2017

IJIES

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This research investigates the operational, economic and environmental advantages of the returnable packaging under various reverse logistics arrangements, in relation to the disposable packaging. The business under study is a Thai manufacturer and exporter of automotive parts with the trading partners in the Philippines and Vietnam. In the study, a switch was made from the currently disposable packaging to the standardized returnable packaging under three reverse logistics arrangements: the single-, round-and multi-trip arrangements. Due to the large initial investment associated with the returnable packaging, a mathematical model was proposed to calculate the total effective packaging cost. The research findings revealed that the multi-trip reverse logistics arrangement was most operationally and environmentally viable, with the largest total packaging cost reduction and packaging waste reduction of 61% and 68%, relative to the disposable packaging. Meanwhile, the single-trip reverse logistics arrangement was most favorable economically due to its shortest payback period of 0.33 year. Moreover, the life cycle assessment (LCA) was applied to the disposable and returnable packaging to evaluate the environmental impacts throughout their lifetime. The LCA results validate the more environmentally-friendly nature of the returnable packaging.

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Improving environmental performances in wine production by a life cycle assessment analysis

Cited by 94 publications

References 19 publications

Life Cycle Assessment Application to the Wine Sector: A Critical Review

Life Cycle Assessment Application to the Wine Sector: A Critical Review

Life Cycle Analysis in the Framework of Agricultural Strategic Development Planning in the Balkan Region

The Operational, Economic and Environmental Benefits of Returnable Packaging Under Various Reverse Logistics Arrangements

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