Proposal of Package-to-Product Indicator for Carbon Footprint Assessment with Focus on the Czech Republic

Šerešová, Markéta; Kočí, Václav

doi:10.3390/su12073034

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“…The obtained product goes through secondary and tertiary packaging procedures in order to be distributed to retailers. The data regarding secondary and tertiary packaging were taken from the article “Proposal of Package-to-Product Indicator for Carbon Footprint Assessment with Focus on the Czech Republic” [ 77 ]. Data from transportation were also retrieved from the article “energy balance for locally grown versus imported apple fruit” [ 78 ].…”

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Setting life cycle assessment (LCA) in a future-oriented context: the combination of qualitative scenarios and LCA in the agri-food sector

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By combining qualitative scenarios and life cycle assessment (LCA), we place the latter in a larger context. This study outlines the importance of the integration of future perspectives into LCA, and also the significance of taking changes in the environment of technology into account, rather than just technological development itself. Accordingly, we focused on adapting the background system of an attributional LCA in the agri-food sector. The proposed technology was assumed not have evolved in the considered time horizon. In this context, the objectives of this paper were twofold: (i) to methodologically prove the applicability of integrating qualitative scenarios into LCA and (ii) to focus on changes in the background system, which is sometimes overlooked in the context of future-oriented LCA. This allowed to evaluate the future potential of different technologies, assessing their environmental impact under uncertain future developments. Methodologically, the qualitative information from scenarios was transformed into quantitative data, which was successively fed into the life cycle inventory (LCI) of the LCA approach. This point of integration into the second phase of LCA translates into future changes in the entire environment in which a technology is used. This means that qualitatively described scenario narratives need to be converted into value estimates in order to be incorporated into the LCA model. A key conclusion is that changes in the background of an LCA—the changing framework expressed through the inventory database—can be very important for the environmental impact of emerging technologies. This approach was applied to a food processing technology to produce apple juice. The proposed methodology enables technology developers to make their products future-proof and robust against socioeconomic development. In addition, the market perspective, if spelled out in the scenarios, can be integrated, leading to a more holistic picture of LCA with its environmental focus, while simultaneously empowering actors to make the right strategic decisions today, especially when considering the long investment cycles in the agri-food sector.

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Setting life cycle assessment (LCA) in a future-oriented context: the combination of qualitative scenarios and LCA in the agri-food sector

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“…The above discussion is applicable to products. No universal methodology currently exists that would enable the complex assessment of packaging in relation to particular products in the context of the CE [18].…”

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Ecologically Embedded Design in Manufacturing: Legitimation within Circular Economy

2020

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Circular economy has gained momentum since the 1970s as a regenerative alternative to the traditional linear economy. However, as the circular economy has gone mainstream, circularity claims have become fragmented and remote, consisting of indirect contributions, such as the life extension of other products and the use of waste as feedstock, without addressing the actual cause of waste. The present study aims to identify the strategic motivations of manufacturers participating in the circular economy and the corresponding relationship to ecological embeddedness. This paper explores the circular economy in manufacturing through existing products on the market and their relationship to eco-design by considering the product, packaging, and its production. Legitimacy is found to be a decisive factor in whether the type of circular economy strategy manufacturers adopt yields ecological benefits. The results from the case study of products clearly indicate the superiority of ecological embeddedness, as a form of circularity supporting strong sustainability. Finally, a novel template is proposed to support the implementation of ecological embeddedness in manufacturing.

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“…The PtP indicator was used for analysing the relation between the environmental impact caused by the product and its package. The PtP indicator was designed as the ratio of the result of the climate change indicator for the package (CC Pa ) and the result of the climate change indicator for the product (CC Pr ) [33]. Regarding the results of the climate change indicator, the PtP cc as indicator for the evaluation of the results of the climate change indicator is calculated according to Equation (1).…”

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“…This indicator allows us to assess the environmental impacts of the whole life cycle of packaging materials related to the environmental impacts of the product. Although this indicator was used for the environmental assessment of packaging used in the food processing industry, it can also be used for products and packaging in other industries [32,33]. As was proposed before [32], the climate change indicator can be used as an indicator for environmental impact assessment according to the Product Environmental Footprint methodology [34].…”

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Carbon Footprint Assessment of Construction Waste Packaging Using the Package-to-Product Indicator

2020

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The environmental impacts of buildings are based on the construction products, which together with their packaging can be assessed as one product system. To reduce the environmental impacts of buildings, the products and their packaging need to be optimised and analysed using environmental assessment. The purpose of this study is to assess the packaging related to the product according to the Life Cycle Assessment method. The environmental assessment was performed using the Product Environmental Footprint methodology, version 3.0. To compare the primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging, the results of the climate change indicator were used as a base to calculate the Package-to-Product (PtP) indicator. Among the considered scenarios to handle the waste packaging (landfilling scenario, material recovery scenario, energy recovery scenario, and the mixed scenario), the material recovery scenario is the most preferable and, for most of the packaging materials, the scenario with the lowest impact. Following the PtP result, the secondary packaging in the roof tile system has a significant share of the impact of the whole system (16% for the energy recovery scenario). Moreover, the results confirm the PtP indicator as the appropriate indicator to analyse the environmental impacts of construction products.

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Proposal of Package-to-Product Indicator for Carbon Footprint Assessment with Focus on the Czech Republic

Cited by 21 publications

References 26 publications

Setting life cycle assessment (LCA) in a future-oriented context: the combination of qualitative scenarios and LCA in the agri-food sector

Setting life cycle assessment (LCA) in a future-oriented context: the combination of qualitative scenarios and LCA in the agri-food sector

Ecologically Embedded Design in Manufacturing: Legitimation within Circular Economy

Carbon Footprint Assessment of Construction Waste Packaging Using the Package-to-Product Indicator

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