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Life cycle assessment of food waste management options
Sven Lundie,Gregory Peters +1 more
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In this paper, an environmental assessment of alternative means for managing food waste is based on the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology, which covers the service provided by a household in-sink food waste processor (FWP) unit and alternatives to it.About:
This article is published in Journal of Cleaner Production.The article was published on 2005-02-01. It has received 271 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Waste collection & Municipal solid waste.read more
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The food waste hierarchy as a framework for the management of food surplus and food waste
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the factors that give rise to food waste throughout the food supply chain, and propose a framework to identify and prioritize the most appropriate options for prevention and management of food waste.
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A review of life cycle assessment (LCA) on some food products.
Poritosh Roy,Daisuke Nei,Takahiro Orikasa,Qingyi Xu,Hiroshi Okadome,Nobutaka Nakamura,Takeo Shiina +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented some of the LCA studies on agricultural and industrial food products, recent advances in LCA and their application on food products and reviewed literatures indicate that agricultural production is the hotspot in the life cycle of food products.
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Review of LCA studies of solid waste management systems--part I: lessons learned and perspectives.
Alexis Laurent,Ioannis Bakas,Julie Clavreul,Anna Bernstad,Monia Niero,Emmanuel Gentil,Michael Zwicky Hauschild,Thomas Højlund Christensen +7 more
TL;DR: A critical review of 222 published LCA studies of SWMS found that there is little agreement in the conclusions among them and recommend stakeholders in solid waste management to regard LCA as a tool, which allows identifying critical problems and proposing improvement options adapted to the local specificities.
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Review of LCA studies of solid waste management systems - Part II: Methodological guidance for a better practice.
Alexis Laurent,Julie Clavreul,Anna Bernstad,Ioannis Bakas,Monia Niero,Emmanuel Gentil,Thomas Højlund Christensen,Michael Zwicky Hauschild +7 more
TL;DR: Results show that malpractices exist in several aspects of the LCA with large differences across studies and detailed recommendations are provided to practitioners of waste management LCAs.
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Minimizing the increasing solid waste through zero waste strategy
TL;DR: In this article, the challenges of solid waste (focusing on industrial waste e-waste, food waste and packaging waste), zero waste practices, and zero waste strategy were discussed to analyze the challenges and opportunities to transform traditional waste management toward zero waste vision.
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The Revision of ISO Standards 14040-3 - ISO 14040: Environmental management Life cycle assessment Principles and framework - ISO 14044: Environmental management Life cycle assessment Requirements and guidelines
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Climate Change 1995: The Science of Climate Change
TL;DR: The most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment available for scientific understanding of human influences on the past present and future climate is "Climate Change 1995: The Science of Climate Change" as mentioned in this paper.
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Handbook on Life Cycle Assessment: Operational Guide to the ISO Standards
TL;DR: The Guide to LCA is a guide to the management of LCA projects: procedures and guiding principles for the present Guide, which aims to clarify goal and scope definition, impact assessment, and interpretation.