Assessing environmental impacts using a comparative LCA of industrial and artisanal production processes: "Minas Cheese" case

Nigri, Elbert M.; Barros, Aline Capanema de; Rocha, Sônia Denise Ferreira; Filho, Eduardo Romeiro

doi:10.1590/1678-457x.6356

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“…Specifically, Vagnoni et al (2017) analysed the production of Sardinian sheep milk cheese at industrial and semi-artisanal scale in Italy and found that the scale has no effect on GHG emissions in the studied case. In Brazil, Santos et al (2017) analysed a small-sized dairy industry and Nigri et al (2014) assessed the artisanal manufacturing processes of "Minas" cheese. The former author concluded that the artisanal production of "Minas" cheese exerted lower environmental impacts than the industrial process and highlighted the need of further studies on the analysis of the environmental impact of cheese production at different scales.…”

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Environmental impact of cheese production: A case study of a small-scale factory in southern Europe and global overview of carbon footprint

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Laca

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Science of The Total Environment

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The environmental performance of a small-scale cheese factory sited in a NW Spanish region has been analysed by Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as representative of numerous cheese traditional factories that are scattered through the European Union, especially in the southern countries. Inventory data were directly obtained from this facility corresponding to one-year operation, and the main subsystems involved in cheese production were included, i.e. raw materials, water, electricity, energy, cleaning products, packaging materials, transports, solid and liquid wastes and gas emissions. Results indicated that the environmental impacts derived from cheese making were mainly originated from raw milk production and the natural land transformation was the most affected of the considered categories. On the contrary, the manufacturing of packaging material and other non-dairy ingredients barely influenced on the total impact. Additionally, an average carbon footprint of the cheeses produced in the analysed facility has also been calculated, resulting milk production and pellet boiler emissions the most contributing subsystems. Furthermore, it was notable the positive environmental effect that entailed the direct use of whey as animal feed, which was considered in this study as avoided fodder. Finally, a revision of published works regarding the environmental performance of cheese production worldwide was provided and compared to results found in the present work. According to the analysed data, it is clear that the content of fat and dry extract are determinant factors for the carbon footprint of cheeses, whereas the cheesemaking scale and the geographical area have a very low effect.

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Environmental impact of cheese production: A case study of a small-scale factory in southern Europe and global overview of carbon footprint

Canellada

Laca

et al. 2018

Science of The Total Environment

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“…As defined by International Organization for Standardization (ISO), a precise LCA generally follows by four phases: Goal and scope definition, Life cycle inventory analysis (LCI), Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA), and Interpretation (AzariJafari et al, 2016). Compared with the conventional LCA, the process of life cycle impact assessment is simplified in this study, as it mainly uses different categories of indicators to elaborate results of life cycle inventory (Nigri et al, 2014). However, only the product carbon footprint is considered in the impact category as the global warming potential, represented by kg CO2e per kg emission.…”

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Carbon footprint assessment for a local branded pure milk product: a lifecycle based approach

Zhao

Wen

et al. 2017

Food Sci. Technol

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This paper provides a simplified life cycle based assessment for a local branded pure milk product, to measure its related carbon footprint, including production of raw milk, dairy processing, transportation of milk product and disposal of packaging waste. The results show that the total carbon footprint of the pure milk is 1120g CO 2 /L. The production of raw milk is identified as the major contributor to the carbon footprint. This contribution has amounted to 843 g of CO 2 per liter of pure milk, accounted for 75.27% of the total carbon footprint. The carbon footprint of product transportation is 38 g of CO 2 per liter, which accounts for 3.39% of the total. The carbon footprint related to the dairy processing and disposal of waste packaging is 173 g of CO 2 per liter and 66 g of CO 2 per liter, accounting for 15.45% and 5.89% of the total, respectively. The carbon footprint assessment intends to help dairy enterprises identify the intensive sectors of carbon emissions, and provides insight into improvement of product environmental performances.

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“…Second stage consisted of applying principles of four different sustainability design tools (van HEMEL, 1998), included in: ESW -Ecodesign Strategy Wheel (ALVES et al, 2016, van HEMEL;CRAMER, 2002); LCA -Life Cycle Assessment (NIGRI et al, 2014); MET -Material, Energy and Toxicity Matrix and VL -Verification List (FRAZÃO et al, 2003). Based on the tools application findings, a new design concept was proposed to the manufacture of a notebook containing a built-in adjustable stand.…”

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Innovation opportunities focusing design for sustainability: an ecodesign strategy wheel application

Ferreira¹,

Mendonça²,

Neves³

et al. 2017

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Abstract:The use of laptops computers is increasing and this model surpassed the desktop computer as the most popular of the personal computer market. On the extended use situations, the laptop can causes ergonomic issues, and the use of an adjustable table is demanded to raise the screen to the user eye-line height in order to alleviate this problem. The manufacturing of the laptop stand causes environmental impact, still requiring the production of other complementary peripherals for the stand to be effective. this paper describes a simplified LCA -Life Cycle Assessment linked to an ESW -Ecodesign Strategy Wheel method application highlighted a great opportunity of innovation during the evaluation of the manufacturing process of the UpTable portable laptop stand, providing solutions for both the ergonomic issue and the environmental sustainability. Proposed manufacturing process eliminates the peripherals redundancy and promotes economy of supplies with no prejudice to the portability that characterizes the device, reducing the environmental impact during the manufacturing process, utilization and discharge of the product.

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Assessing environmental impacts using a comparative LCA of industrial and artisanal production processes: "Minas Cheese" case

Cited by 20 publications

References 12 publications

Environmental impact of cheese production: A case study of a small-scale factory in southern Europe and global overview of carbon footprint

Environmental impact of cheese production: A case study of a small-scale factory in southern Europe and global overview of carbon footprint

Carbon footprint assessment for a local branded pure milk product: a lifecycle based approach

Innovation opportunities focusing design for sustainability: an ecodesign strategy wheel application

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