Valentina Castellani

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present feasibility and constraints of applying industrial symbiosis in recovering waste from food processing, focusing on recycling (excluding energy recovery) of the solid and liquid waste from the food processing industry.

TL;DR: In this paper, a lifecycle assessment (LCA)-based approach has been applied to a basket of products, selected as being representative of EU consumption, and a highly disaggregated inventory model was developed based on a modular approach, and built using statistical data.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an innovative attempt to evaluate sustainability holistically, by defining specific targets through the definition of indicators suitable to measure and evaluate the temporal evolution of development policies, mainstreaming sustainability to reduce adverse effects on the environment and promoting conservation of local and traditional values.

TL;DR: To appraise the environmental benefits related to reuse of goods, a methodology adopting life cycle assessment (LCA) has been developed, identifying reference products within product category subject to reuse, and collecting reliable inventory data as a basis for calculating environmental impact through LCA.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative study about sustainability evaluation of tourism activities, including LCA of a holiday and a hotel structure, is presented, showing that there is a correlation between the results of the two assessments, due to the relevance of energy and fossil fuel consumption as main drivers of impact.