Combined application of Life Cycle Assessment and linear programming to evaluate food waste-to-food strategies: Seeking for answers in the nexus approach

The great concern regarding food loss (FL) has been studied previously, but in an isolated way, disregarding interdependencies with other areas. This paper aims to go a step further by proposing a new procedure to assess different waste management alternatives based on the nexus approach by means of...

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Autores: Laso Cortabitarte, Jara|||0000-0003-4442-6786, Margallo Blanco, María|||0000-0003-0305-5931, García Herrero, María Isabel, Fullana i Palmer, Pere, Bala Gala, Alba, Gazulla Santos, Cristina, Polettini, Alessandra, Kahhat Abedrabbo, Ramzy Francis, Vázquez Rowe, Ian, Irabien Gulías, Ángel|||0000-0002-2411-4163, Aldaco García, Rubén|||0000-0001-6216-7031
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Circular economy
Engraulis encrasicolus
Food loss
Industrial ecology
LCA
Nexus index
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spelling Combined application of Life Cycle Assessment and linear programming to evaluate food waste-to-food strategies: Seeking for answers in the nexus approachLaso Cortabitarte, Jara|||0000-0003-4442-6786Margallo Blanco, María|||0000-0003-0305-5931García Herrero, María IsabelFullana i Palmer, PereBala Gala, AlbaGazulla Santos, CristinaPolettini, AlessandraKahhat Abedrabbo, Ramzy FrancisVázquez Rowe, IanIrabien Gulías, Ángel|||0000-0002-2411-4163Aldaco García, Rubén|||0000-0001-6216-7031Circular economyEngraulis encrasicolusFood lossIndustrial ecologyLCANexus indexThe great concern regarding food loss (FL) has been studied previously, but in an isolated way, disregarding interdependencies with other areas. This paper aims to go a step further by proposing a new procedure to assess different waste management alternatives based on the nexus approach by means of an integrated Water-Energy-Food-Climate Nexus Index (WEFCNI). The environmental profile of the waste management techniques is determined using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) which, in combination with Linear Programming (LP), explores the optimal aggregation of weighting factors that lead to an aggregated nexus index. The management of residues from the anchovy canning industry in Cantabria (Spain) has been used as a case study, considering the three current applied alternatives: (i) valorisation of FL as animal feed in aquaculture (food waste-to-food approach), (ii) incineration of FL with energy recovery, and (iii) landfilling with biogas recovery. The last two considered the use of energy recovered to produce a new aquaculture product (food waste-to-energy-to-food scenarios). The results indicate that incineration is the best performing scenario when the nutritional energy provided by the valorisation alternative is not high enough and the valorisation technology presents the highest water consumption. Therefore, a minimisation in the consumption of natural resources is suggested in order to improve the application of circular economy within the sector. The use of the nexus index as an environmental management tool is extendable to any food system with the aim of facilitating the decision-making process in the development of more sustainable products.The authors thank the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Spanish Government for its financial support via the project GeSAC-Conserva: Sustainable Management of the Cantabrian Anchovies (CTM2013-43539-R) and to Julia Celaya for her technical support. Jara Laso thanks the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spanish Government for its financial support via the research fellowship BES-2014-069368. Pere Fullana and Alba Bala thank the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change. Ian Vázquez-Rowe thanks the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú for financing the Walaya Project.Elsevier LimitedUniversidad de Cantabria20182018-10-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501NAhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_be7fb7dd8ff6fe43info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://hdl.handle.net/10902/15708Waste Management, 2018, 80, 186-197reponame:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabriainstname:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/157082026-06-02T12:39:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Combined application of Life Cycle Assessment and linear programming to evaluate food waste-to-food strategies: Seeking for answers in the nexus approach
title Combined application of Life Cycle Assessment and linear programming to evaluate food waste-to-food strategies: Seeking for answers in the nexus approach
spellingShingle Combined application of Life Cycle Assessment and linear programming to evaluate food waste-to-food strategies: Seeking for answers in the nexus approach
Laso Cortabitarte, Jara|||0000-0003-4442-6786
Circular economy
Engraulis encrasicolus
Food loss
Industrial ecology
LCA
Nexus index
title_short Combined application of Life Cycle Assessment and linear programming to evaluate food waste-to-food strategies: Seeking for answers in the nexus approach
title_full Combined application of Life Cycle Assessment and linear programming to evaluate food waste-to-food strategies: Seeking for answers in the nexus approach
title_fullStr Combined application of Life Cycle Assessment and linear programming to evaluate food waste-to-food strategies: Seeking for answers in the nexus approach
title_full_unstemmed Combined application of Life Cycle Assessment and linear programming to evaluate food waste-to-food strategies: Seeking for answers in the nexus approach
title_sort Combined application of Life Cycle Assessment and linear programming to evaluate food waste-to-food strategies: Seeking for answers in the nexus approach
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Laso Cortabitarte, Jara|||0000-0003-4442-6786
Margallo Blanco, María|||0000-0003-0305-5931
García Herrero, María Isabel
Fullana i Palmer, Pere
Bala Gala, Alba
Gazulla Santos, Cristina
Polettini, Alessandra
Kahhat Abedrabbo, Ramzy Francis
Vázquez Rowe, Ian
Irabien Gulías, Ángel|||0000-0002-2411-4163
Aldaco García, Rubén|||0000-0001-6216-7031
author Laso Cortabitarte, Jara|||0000-0003-4442-6786
author_facet Laso Cortabitarte, Jara|||0000-0003-4442-6786
Margallo Blanco, María|||0000-0003-0305-5931
García Herrero, María Isabel
Fullana i Palmer, Pere
Bala Gala, Alba
Gazulla Santos, Cristina
Polettini, Alessandra
Kahhat Abedrabbo, Ramzy Francis
Vázquez Rowe, Ian
Irabien Gulías, Ángel|||0000-0002-2411-4163
Aldaco García, Rubén|||0000-0001-6216-7031
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author2 Margallo Blanco, María|||0000-0003-0305-5931
García Herrero, María Isabel
Fullana i Palmer, Pere
Bala Gala, Alba
Gazulla Santos, Cristina
Polettini, Alessandra
Kahhat Abedrabbo, Ramzy Francis
Vázquez Rowe, Ian
Irabien Gulías, Ángel|||0000-0002-2411-4163
Aldaco García, Rubén|||0000-0001-6216-7031
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidad de Cantabria
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Circular economy
Engraulis encrasicolus
Food loss
Industrial ecology
LCA
Nexus index
topic Circular economy
Engraulis encrasicolus
Food loss
Industrial ecology
LCA
Nexus index
description The great concern regarding food loss (FL) has been studied previously, but in an isolated way, disregarding interdependencies with other areas. This paper aims to go a step further by proposing a new procedure to assess different waste management alternatives based on the nexus approach by means of an integrated Water-Energy-Food-Climate Nexus Index (WEFCNI). The environmental profile of the waste management techniques is determined using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) which, in combination with Linear Programming (LP), explores the optimal aggregation of weighting factors that lead to an aggregated nexus index. The management of residues from the anchovy canning industry in Cantabria (Spain) has been used as a case study, considering the three current applied alternatives: (i) valorisation of FL as animal feed in aquaculture (food waste-to-food approach), (ii) incineration of FL with energy recovery, and (iii) landfilling with biogas recovery. The last two considered the use of energy recovered to produce a new aquaculture product (food waste-to-energy-to-food scenarios). The results indicate that incineration is the best performing scenario when the nutritional energy provided by the valorisation alternative is not high enough and the valorisation technology presents the highest water consumption. Therefore, a minimisation in the consumption of natural resources is suggested in order to improve the application of circular economy within the sector. The use of the nexus index as an environmental management tool is extendable to any food system with the aim of facilitating the decision-making process in the development of more sustainable products.
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