Methodology for combined use of data envelopment analysis and life cycle assessment applied to food waste management

2016 ◽  
Vol 135 ◽  
pp. 158-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Cristóbal ◽  
Phantisa Limleamthong ◽  
Simone Manfredi ◽  
Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Food Waste ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Combined Use

scholarly journals Life Cycle Assessment of Bioplastics and Food Waste Disposal Methods

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6894
Author(s):  
Shakira R. Hobbs ◽  
Tyler M. Harris ◽  
William J. Barr ◽  
Amy E. Landis
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Anaerobic Digestion ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Food Waste ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Anaerobic Digester ◽  
Management Scenarios ◽  
Cumulative Energy ◽  
Cumulative Energy Demand

The environmental impacts of five waste management scenarios for polylactic acid (PLA)-based bioplastics and food waste were quantified using life cycle assessment. Laboratory experiments have demonstrated the potential for a pretreatment process to accelerate the degradation of bioplastics and were modeled in two of the five scenarios assessed. The five scenarios analyzed in this study were: (1a) Anaerobic digestion (1b) Anaerobic digestion with pretreatment; (2a) Compost; (2a) Compost with pretreatment; (3) Landfill. Results suggested that food waste and pretreated bioplastics disposed of with an anaerobic digester offers life cycle and environmental net total benefits (environmental advantages/offsets) in several areas: ecotoxicity (−81.38 CTUe), eutrophication (0 kg N eq), cumulative energy demand (−1.79 MJ), global warming potential (0.19 kg CO2), and human health non-carcinogenic (−2.52 CTuh). Normalized results across all impact categories show that anaerobically digesting food waste and bioplastics offer the most offsets for ecotoxicity, eutrophication, cumulative energy demand and non-carcinogenic. Implications from this study can lead to nutrient and energy recovery from an anaerobic digester that can diversify the types of fertilizers and decrease landfill waste while decreasing dependency on non-renewable technologies. Thus, using anaerobic digestion to manage bioplastics and food waste should be further explored as a viable and sustainable solution for waste management.

Life cycle assessment of the food waste management with a focus on the collection bag

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (10) ◽  
pp. 1317-1327
Author(s):  
Giovanni Dolci ◽  
Lucia Rigamonti ◽  
Mario Grosso
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Food Waste ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Environmental Product Declaration ◽  
Product Environmental Footprint ◽  
Weight Losses ◽  
Alternative Systems ◽  
Two Systems

The organic fraction (mainly food waste) is typically the most abundant of the separately collected waste streams. The research aims at investigating the influence of different types of collection bag on the environmental performances of the food waste management chain in Italy. A comparative life cycle assessment (LCA) between two alternative systems based on paper or bioplastic collection bags was carried out. It included the collection bags manufacturing and distribution, their use at the household, the transportation of collected food waste and its subsequent anaerobic digestion, including the valorisation of useful outputs and the management of residues. The two systems were modelled mainly with primary data related to the current management system and to tests performed on bags. The LCA was performed with two different modelling approaches applied in the environmental product declaration (EPD) system and in the product environmental footprint (PEF) studies, respectively. In the scenario representing the average conditions, higher environmental impacts are shown by the use of bioplastic bags compared to paper ones with the EPD approach (+257%/+576%). With the PEF approach, the differences between the two systems are lower (−55%/+133%). Moreover, paper bags could allow for further impact reductions assuming a decrease of the food waste collection frequency, allowed by higher weight losses and a lower generation of leachate and odour during the household storage.

Joint Life Cycle Assessment and Data Envelopment Analysis for the benchmarking of environmental impacts in rice paddy production

2015 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 521-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Mohammadi ◽  
Shahin Rafiee ◽  
Ali Jafari ◽  
Alireza Keyhani ◽  
Tommy Dalgaard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Rice Paddy ◽  
Data Envelopment

Further potentials in the joint implementation of life cycle assessment and data envelopment analysis

2010 ◽  
Vol 408 (22) ◽  
pp. 5265-5272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Iribarren ◽  
Ian Vázquez-Rowe ◽  
María Teresa Moreira ◽  
Gumersindo Feijoo
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Joint Implementation ◽  
Data Envelopment
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