Packaging environmental impact on seafood supply chains: A review of life cycle assessment studies

Almeida, Cheila; Loubet, Philippe; Costa, Tamíris Pacheco da; Quinteiro, Paula; Laso, Jara; Sousa, David Baptista de; Cooney, Ronan; Mellett, Sinead; Sonnemann, Guido; Rodríguez, Carlos J.; Rowan, Neil J.; Clifford, Eoghan; Ruiz‐Salmón, Israel; Margallo, María; Aldaco, Rubén; Nunes, María Leonor; Dias, Ana Cláudia; Marques, António

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“…A recent review on the packaging's contribution to the environmental performance of seafood products has been presented by Almeida et al. (2021), involving 32 peer‐reviewed articles. Among those articles, the majority suggested substituting tin plate or aluminum by other packaging nonmetal materials such as plastic or glass for canned products.…”

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Life cycle assessment of Indonesian canned crab (Portunus pelagicus)

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Romli

Nugraha

et al. 2022

J of Industrial Ecology

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Indonesia is an archipelagic country with abundant marine wealth that makes it the world's second largest producer of fish after China. While most of Indonesia's capture marine fisheries (80%) are consumed domestically, around 90% of blue swimming crab (BSC) products are exported, mainly in cans. This makes up almost half of all BSC products on the global market, with the United States and the European Union being the main importers. We carried out a life cycle assessment (LCA) of canned BSC products from Indonesia. Our LCA evaluated the production of "one tonne of canned BSC" at market as a functional unit (FU), with a cradle-to-market system boundary, encompassing wild capture, preprocessing, processing, and distribution to the port of destination at home and abroad. The processing stage was found to be the highest contributor (hotspot) for most of the impact categories considered, mainly due to the use of tin cans for packaging. Despite producing less by-catch, BSC caught with traps resulted in around threefold greater global warming impact per FU than those caught using nets.We also concluded that BSC meat produced in Java is environmentally preferable to that from Sumatra, as most of the shells were sold as coproducts. In addition to recycling and substitution of packaging materials, environmental improvements can also be obtained by increasing the number of shell-processing facilities outside Java. The results of this study can be used by the Indonesian government to develop more sustainable practices to avoid overexploitation of BSC and limit its environmental impacts. K E Y W O R D Sblue swimming crab, environmental impacts, hotspot analysis, industrial ecology, marine capture fisheries, packaging materials INTRODUCTION Global seafood marketGlobal demand for aquatic foods (here referred to as any edible aquatic organism, excluding seaweed) is projected to increase by over 40% between 2018 and 2030 (FAO, 2020a), driven by growing populations and demographic shifts (Gephart et al., 2017). China, as the largest consumer, producer, importer, and exporter of seafood in the world, is likely to see seafood consumption outstrip domestic production by 2030 (Crona et al.,

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Life cycle assessment of Indonesian canned crab (Portunus pelagicus)

Wiloso

Romli

Nugraha

et al. 2022

J of Industrial Ecology

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“…In contrast, cans of tinned seafood suppose an important contribution to the climate change potential of the product [49,[64][65][66]. On average, packaging of canned seafood made of tinplate, aluminium or glass contributes 42% of the product's climate change impact and 27% of the product's weight, indicating that for such products, packaging production is commonly a major bottleneck [67]. This demonstrates that the type of packaging material could have a significant influence on the product's environmental performance.…”

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“…This demonstrates that the type of packaging material could have a significant influence on the product's environmental performance. Unlike certain materials, plastic has a low contribution to seafood products' climate change impact, mainly due to its lower energy requirements in the production phase compared to other materials (e.g., aluminium) [67]. As an example, plastic packaging can be the most environmentally friendly option for the distribution of fruit and vegetables compared to reusable plastic crates with single-use cardboard boxes [68].…”

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Achieving Sustainability of the Seafood Sector in the European Atlantic Area by Addressing Eco-Social Challenges: The NEPTUNUS Project

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Fisheries and aquaculture are becoming a focus of societal concern driven by globalization and increasing environmental degradation, mainly caused by climate change and marine litter. In response to this problem, the European Atlantic Area NEPTUNUS project aims to support and inform about the sustainability of the seafood sector, boosting the transition towards a circular economy through defining eco-innovation approaches and a steady methodology for eco-labelling products. This timely trans-regional European project proposes key corrective actions for positively influencing resource efficiency by addressing a life cycle thinking and involving all stakeholders in decision-making processes, harnessing the water-energy-seafood nexus. This paper presents inter-related objectives, methodologies and cues to action that will potentially meet these challenges that are aligned with many of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and European policy frameworks (e.g., Farm to Fork, European Green Deal).

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“…A study by Almeida et al (2022) provides an in-depth review of the impact of packaging materials in the overall impact of seafood products.…”

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“…A study by Almeida et al. (2022) provides an in‐depth review of the impact of packaging materials in the overall impact of seafood products. Focused mainly on GHG emissions, the study highlights how paper‐ and plastic‐based packaging materials tend to show substantially lower carbon footprint values than glass‐, aluminum‐, or tin‐based packages.…”

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Industrial ecology for the oceans

Vázquez‐Rowe

Parker

Hamilton

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J of Industrial Ecology

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Human interaction with ocean resources has historically been challenging due to the difficulties that arise when a terrestrial species aims at becoming successful in a marine environment. Shipwrecks, for instance, have doomed coastal communities for centuries, and even today fishing is one of the deadliest sectors in the labor force. Similarly, human-induced marine environmental catastrophes, such as oil spills for instance (Trevors & Saier, 2010), have commonly been laborious to clean up due to the inherent difficulty of humans performing beyond terrestrial ecosystems.Continued human population and economic growth since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution have exacerbated the need of human societies for mineral ores, fossil fuels, and other sources of energy, water, and food. This has led to the occupation of vast areas of terrestrial land, to the extent that humans now have a noticeable footprint in all the world's terrestrial biomes. In the world's oceans this same pattern has occurred at a slower pace throughout the decades, with fishing activities becoming more efficient with the arrival of steam vessels in the 1880s, diesel in the 20th century (Engelhard, 2008), and the incorporation of sophisticated detection systems turning ancestral coastal fishing activities into highly industrialized systems that land millions of metric tons of fish and other marine species annually (Fornshell & Tesei, 2013). Similarly, oil rigs spread quickly in the world's ocean to provide additional fossil fuel supplies for thirsty growing economies (Nyman, 2015), marine fright soared with the process of globalization (Mersin et al., 2019) with thousands of cargo vessels swarming the seas and, more recently, seabed mining has appeared in the public and private agenda as an alternative and lucrative sector to maintain the supply of metal ores in the technosphere (Levin et al., 2020). This increased pressure of human activities on the ocean and its resources has translated into a series of environmental impacts that have affected marine conservation (Knowlton, 2021) and degraded vast areas of the ocean. However, it must be noted that not all environmental impactsThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Packaging environmental impact on seafood supply chains: A review of life cycle assessment studies

Cited by 13 publications

References 86 publications

Life cycle assessment of Indonesian canned crab (Portunus pelagicus)

Life cycle assessment of Indonesian canned crab (Portunus pelagicus)

Achieving Sustainability of the Seafood Sector in the European Atlantic Area by Addressing Eco-Social Challenges: The NEPTUNUS Project

Industrial ecology for the oceans

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