Application of life cycle assessment to food industry wastes

2020 ◽  
pp. 331-353
Author(s):  
Mónica Herrero ◽  
Amanda Laca ◽  
Adriana Laca ◽  
Mario Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Food Industry

scholarly journals Life Cycle Assessment of Maize-Germ Oil Production and The Use of Bioenergy to Mitigate Environmental Impacts: A Gate-To-Gate Case Study

Resources ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mattias Gaglio ◽  
Elena Tamburini ◽  
Francesco Lucchesi ◽  
Vassilis Aschonitis ◽  
Anna Atti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Impact Categories ◽  
Industrial Processing ◽  
The Impact

The need to reduce the environmental impacts of the food industry is increasing together with the dramatic increment of global food demand. Circulation strategies such as the exploitation of self-produced renewable energy sources can improve ecological performances of industrial processes. However, evidence is needed to demonstrate and characterize such environmental benefits. This study assessed the environmental performances of industrial processing of maize edible oil, whose energy provision is guaranteed by residues biomasses. A gate-to-gate Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approach was applied for a large-size factory of Northern Italy to describe: (i) the environmental impacts related to industrial processing and (ii) the contribution of residue-based bioenergy to their mitigation, through the comparison with a reference system based on conventional energy. The results showed that oil refinement is the most impacting phase for almost all the considered impact categories. The use of residue-based bioenergy was found to drastically reduce the emissions for all the impact categories. Moreover, Cumulative Energy Demand analysis revealed that the use of biomass residues increased energy efficiency through a reduction of the total energy demand of the industrial process. The study demonstrates that the exploitation of residue-based bioenergy can be a sustainable solution to improve environmental performances of the food industry, while supporting circular economy.

Production of mealworms for human consumption in Finland: a preliminary life cycle assessment

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Joensuu ◽  
F. Silvenius
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Animal Feed ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Emission Energy ◽  
Low Emission ◽  
By Products

Interest in insect production for human consumption is growing in many European countries, including Finland. One of the main justifications for insect-based food products is their lower environmental burden compared to traditional livestock products; another is the need for new protein sources for animal feed and human consumption. In this study, we investigated the global warming potential (GWP) of the potential future industrial scale mealworm production in Finland, using existing data on input needs of mealworm production in the Netherlands and previous life cycle assessment studies of Finnish feedstocks and energy sources. We compared three scenarios, of which one was based on feeding with a commercial feeding mixture, the second on feeding with food industry by-products and the third on the use of low-emission energy sources in combination with feeding with food industry by-products. In all three scenarios, feed crop production and direct heating energy were responsible for at least 95% of the total GWP. Especially the use of low-emission energy sources appears to have potential in reducing the greenhouse gas emissions of insect production.

scholarly journals Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Edible Vegetable Frying Oils

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (6) ◽  
pp. 1717-1733
Author(s):  
Valentina Prado ◽  
Jesse Daystar ◽  
Steven Pires ◽  
Michele Wallace ◽  
Lise Laurin
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Vegetable Oils ◽  
Canola Oil ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Cottonseed Oil ◽  
Frying Oils

HighlightsCottonseed oil (CSO), a cotton byproduct, has advantages for climate change compared to other seed oils.Results show that the cultivation phase is the main impact driver for all vegetable oils analyzed in this study.Refined CSO (U.S.) can reduce climate change impacts by up to 83% as compared to the other oils analyzed.Abstract. Edible vegetable oils are a major source of climate change impacts and an environmental concern in the processed food industry. This study consists of a cradle-to-grave life cycle assessment (LCA) of refined U.S. cottonseed oil (CSO), global soybean oil, U.S. canola oil, and palm oil sourced from Indonesia and Malaysia. Considering the oils equivalent for deep frying, they are compared on a 1 kg of oil basis. Analysis includes sensitivity analyses for modeling allocation choices and oil mixes as well as uncertainty analysis. Results show that the cultivation phase is the main impact driver for all vegetable oils analyzed, which favors CSO (U.S.) because it is a co-product. Refined CSO (U.S.) can reduce climate change impacts by up to 83%. Overall, refined CSO (U.S.) was a top performer in six of the eight impact categories evaluated. When ranking the oils, refined CSO (U.S.) was the preferred choice. Despite being the preferred choice, there are tradeoffs with CSO, such as water scarcity. In the context of global-scale commercial frying applications, e.g., McDonald’s daily French fry production of 9 million tons per day, switching the frying oil to refined CSO (U.S.) represents potential savings of 1,130 to 2,188 tons of CO2-eq d-1. For fast-food chains seeking to reduce their climate change impacts, refined CSO (U.S.) may be useful in frying applications. However, opportunities may exist for improvement in water use efficiency in the cultivation phase, which reinforces the need for continuous improvements in agriculture. Keywords: Comparative life cycle assessment, Canola oil, Cottonseed oil, Cotton sustainability, Fast-food industry, LCA, Palm oil, Soybean oil, Vegetable frying oils.

Life Cycle Assessment for eco-design of product–package systems in the food industry—The case of legumes

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 24-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Del Borghi ◽  
C. Strazza ◽  
F. Magrassi ◽  
A.C. Taramasso ◽  
M. Gallo
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Product Package

Life Cycle Assessment Focusing on Food Industry Wastes

2013 ◽  
pp. 265-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mónica Herrero ◽  
Adriana Laca ◽  
Mario Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Food Industry

Insect biorefinery in Europe: ‘DESigning the Insect bioRefinery to contribute to a more sustainABLE agro-food industry’

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Azagoh ◽  
A. Hubert ◽  
S. Mezdour
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Waste Products ◽  
Animal Feeds

This paper offers a brief overview of the potential technical barriers that need to be overcome in order to develop a new insect industry based on the rearing of insects on waste products, their transformation and the formulation of animal meals. This work will also include conduct of a detailed life cycle assessment of the system. In-depth studies and analyses will be performed on every component and then consolidated globally at the scale of the industry. Although insects appear to constitute a pertinent source of food for humans, these studies will focus on the potential incorporation of insect proteins in animal feeds, mainly for fish and poultry, as a substitute for fish and soybean-based meals.

The utility of Life Cycle Assessment in the ready meal food industry

2010 ◽  
Vol 54 (12) ◽  
pp. 1196-1207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Alberto Calderón ◽  
Loreto Iglesias ◽  
Adriana Laca ◽  
Mónica Herrero ◽  
Mario Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Ready Meal
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