Life cycle assessment of food loss and waste in the food supply chain

Omolayo, Yetunde; Feingold, Beth J.; Neff, Roni A.; Romeiko, Xiaobo Xue

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.105119

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“…Nowadays, it was pointed out that most of studies lacked of consensus and transparency about the used methodology and about the uncertainty of scenario and models used in LCA (Omolayo et al, 2020). These disparity and uncertainty lead to misleading and contrasted results between LCA analyses, making them incomparable (Corrado et al, 2017).…”

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“…In addition, LCA does not include the current policy concerning food and packaging waste prevention, management and valorization (Omolayo et al, 2020). This potential of handling waste is dependent of facilities of each region and thus the packaging development should differ in function of this potential.…”

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“…of FLW, which is generally missing in LCA today (Omolayo et al, 2020). Indeed, using modeling approach of end of life currently available in LCA, Wikström and co-authors found that if the FLW was converted in energy and the packaging was well recycled, the potential to find new packaging solution with lower total environmental impact was reduced (Wikström and Williams, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Several authors already proposed a review on the modeling of food quality (Shimoni and Labuza, 2000;Van Boekel, 2008;Chaix et al, 2015a;Putnik et al, 2017a;Salehi, 2020), food loss and waste (Minner and Transchel, 2010), or direct and indirect environmental of packed food (Vignali, 2016;Molinabesch, 2019;Omolayo et al, 2020). However, to the best of our knowledge, no one proposed an integrative approach combining these three kinds of models.…”

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The Use of Modeling Tools to Better Evaluate the Packaging Benefice on Our Environment

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Gaucel

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Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Packaging play a key role on food quality preservation and shelf-life increase. Even if the link between shelf life and food loss has not yet clearly been formalized, it is generally observed that a well-designed packaging contributes to reduce food loss and waste and thus the corresponding useless negative impact that producing and distributing uneaten or inedible food has on our environment and economy. In order to anticipate the usage benefit of a given packaging, decision making tools are needed to be developed. While some authors' separately showed the importance of shelf life model, food loss and waste prediction model and Life Cycle Analysis, so far no connection was really made between them. In this context, this paper aims to analyze the different mathematical modeling approaches proposed in the available scientific literature, from the prediction of food shelf life gain thanks to well-designed packaging to the environmental benefice due to the decrease of food loss and waste. The article presents a review of 29 models developed on this thematic during the last two decades. The analyzed models were split in three categories: (1) the food shelf life models, (2) the models linking shelf life to food loss and waste, and (3) the Life Cycle Analysis including direct (production, processing and end of life) and indirect (food loss and waste) packaging environmental impacts. In one hand, the review showed that if many predicting approaches were conducted to assess food shelf life, only few of them were enough mechanistic (by coupling mass transfer to food deterioration) to be used in other conditions than the ones initially studied. Moreover, the consumers' practices and believes being strongly influent on the quantity of food waste at household, it should be more systematically integrated in the food loss and waste estimation for a fairer evaluation. On the other hand, this review highlighted that even if indirect environmental benefit of packaging, e.g., through food loss and waste decrease, is more and more integrated in life cycle analyses of the food packaging system, most of studies were only based on rough estimation and not on real quantification of the food loss and waste reduction obtained thanks to the well-designed packaging. Therefore, further research is needed to facilitate the representation/quantification of the links between shelf life increase for packed food, resulting food loss and waste reduction and environmental benefit to support the packaging sectors to choose and validate the best packaging solution to decrease the environmental impact of food/packaging system.

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Section: Limitation Of the Lca Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Limitation Of the Lca Analysismentioning

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“…LCIA translates LCI into damages [16] , which helps interpreting the assessment via converting all emissions and resources into scores of environmental impacts [17] . There are various tools for LCIA including CML2 baseline 2000, IMPACT2002+, ReCiPe2008, USEtox, ReCiPe2016, etc.…”

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Data supporting midpoint-weighting life cycle assessment and energy forms of cumulative exergy demand for horticultural crops

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Taki³

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With an increasing demand of horticultural crops, it is critical to examine environmental damages and exergy impacts and evaluate their potential in producing sustainable products of agricultural systems. As such, environmental midpoints of five dominated horticultural products, namely, hazelnut, watermelon, tea, kiwifruit, and citrus, are scrutinized using life cycle assessment approach in Guilan province, Iran. Each crop is considered under a separate scenario and 10 tons of yield is determined as the functional unit. ReCiPe2016, as a new approach, is used for computation of 17 midpoints. Moreover, a weighting analysis is undertaken to find the share of each input in environmental damages with dimensionless notation. In the second part of this paper, cumulative exergy demand (CExD) is applied for evaluation of energy forms in each scenario. Data are presented under two sectors in the main article. The first part is midpoint results of each crop and the second part depicts energy forms of CExD with input rate in each category. Besides, the supplementary files contain raw material of each input, midpoint physical rate, share of each input to contribute midpoint, raw data of weighted damages and share of each input in total weighted damages.

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Circular economy in agro food supply chain: Bibliometric and network analysis

Banerjee,

Singh,

Kunja

2024

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Recently, there has been growing interest among scholars and industry professionals in understanding how agro‐food supply chains can shift from a linear to a circular model. This involves managing waste, recovering resources, and adopting sustainable practices. However, knowledge on circular economies in agro‐food supply chains is scattered, with limited comprehensive studies available. To address this gap, our study conducts a bibliometric and network analysis of 364 documents from the Scopus database. We identify influential authors, contributing countries and journals, and most cited documents. Additionally, we use network analysis to visualize connections between authors and keywords, providing insights into emerging trends and critical research areas. We also uncover important keywords and themes, laying a foundation for future research directions. Overall, our study offers a comprehensive overview, serving as a basis for further exploration in this field.

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Life cycle assessment of food loss and waste in the food supply chain

Cited by 60 publications

References 46 publications

The Use of Modeling Tools to Better Evaluate the Packaging Benefice on Our Environment

The Use of Modeling Tools to Better Evaluate the Packaging Benefice on Our Environment

Data supporting midpoint-weighting life cycle assessment and energy forms of cumulative exergy demand for horticultural crops

Circular economy in agro food supply chain: Bibliometric and network analysis

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