Environmental assessment of the food packaging waste management system in Spain: understanding the present to improve the future

Selection of high flux membrane for the effective removal of short-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids One-way packaging can represent up to half the environmental impacts of the food value chain and thus optimising its management is essential. Collective selective waste collection managed by authorised...

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Autores: Bala Gala, Alba, Laso Cortabitarte, Jara|||0000-0003-4442-6786, Abejón Elías, Ricardo|||0000-0002-8030-7752, Margallo Blanco, María|||0000-0003-0305-5931, Fullana i Palmer, Pere, Aldaco García, Rubén|||0000-0001-6216-7031
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
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Food packaging waste
Selective
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spelling Environmental assessment of the food packaging waste management system in Spain: understanding the present to improve the futureBala Gala, AlbaLaso Cortabitarte, Jara|||0000-0003-4442-6786Abejón Elías, Ricardo|||0000-0002-8030-7752Margallo Blanco, María|||0000-0003-0305-5931Fullana i Palmer, PereAldaco García, Rubén|||0000-0001-6216-7031Life cycle assessmentFood packaging wasteSelectiveCollectionSelection of high flux membrane for the effective removal of short-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids One-way packaging can represent up to half the environmental impacts of the food value chain and thus optimising its management is essential. Collective selective waste collection managed by authorised organisations (Extended Producer Responsibility, EPR), with or without Deposit-Refund Systems (DRS) are alternatives implemented at European level to handle this problem. Since there is no single simple formula that can be applied to every waste management system, this case study is focused on the entire Spanish model of one-way food packaging waste management, from collection of each fraction in specific containers to final treatment, considering eight different materials. For the analysis, six different impact categories were considered: abiotic depletion potential, global warming potential, acidification potential, eutrophication potential, ozone depletion potential and photochemical ozone formation. Results reveal that the recycling stage is the main stage contributing to the environmental impacts, but the environmental savings related to the recovery of materials in this stage compensates these loads and the system must be considered advantageous for the environment. By contrast, sorting plants present the lowest contributions and is the least significant stage. Significant environmental improvements (close to 10%) would be achieved by addressing the total bulk collection flow to mechanical-biological treatment and increasing the selective collection of light and glass packaging waste. This study can serve to identify common drivers that contribute significantly to the development of an integrated approach to waste packaging management and as baseline for comparison studies with alternative waste recovery technologies and systems.The authors are grateful for the funding of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the Project CTM2016-76176 (AEI/FEDER, UE). The UNESCO chair team would like to acknowledge funding from the ARIADNA Project.ElsevierUniversidad de Cantabria20202020-02-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501NAhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_be7fb7dd8ff6fe43info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://hdl.handle.net/10902/17562Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 702, 134603reponame: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:10902/175622026-06-02T12:39:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Environmental assessment of the food packaging waste management system in Spain: understanding the present to improve the future
title Environmental assessment of the food packaging waste management system in Spain: understanding the present to improve the future
spellingShingle Environmental assessment of the food packaging waste management system in Spain: understanding the present to improve the future
Bala Gala, Alba
Life cycle assessment
Food packaging waste
Selective
Collection
title_short Environmental assessment of the food packaging waste management system in Spain: understanding the present to improve the future
title_full Environmental assessment of the food packaging waste management system in Spain: understanding the present to improve the future
title_fullStr Environmental assessment of the food packaging waste management system in Spain: understanding the present to improve the future
title_full_unstemmed Environmental assessment of the food packaging waste management system in Spain: understanding the present to improve the future
title_sort Environmental assessment of the food packaging waste management system in Spain: understanding the present to improve the future
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Bala Gala, Alba
Laso Cortabitarte, Jara|||0000-0003-4442-6786
Abejón Elías, Ricardo|||0000-0002-8030-7752
Margallo Blanco, María|||0000-0003-0305-5931
Fullana i Palmer, Pere
Aldaco García, Rubén|||0000-0001-6216-7031
author Bala Gala, Alba
author_facet Bala Gala, Alba
Laso Cortabitarte, Jara|||0000-0003-4442-6786
Abejón Elías, Ricardo|||0000-0002-8030-7752
Margallo Blanco, María|||0000-0003-0305-5931
Fullana i Palmer, Pere
Aldaco García, Rubén|||0000-0001-6216-7031
author_role author
author2 Laso Cortabitarte, Jara|||0000-0003-4442-6786
Abejón Elías, Ricardo|||0000-0002-8030-7752
Margallo Blanco, María|||0000-0003-0305-5931
Fullana i Palmer, Pere
Aldaco García, Rubén|||0000-0001-6216-7031
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author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Life cycle assessment
Food packaging waste
Selective
Collection
topic Life cycle assessment
Food packaging waste
Selective
Collection
description Selection of high flux membrane for the effective removal of short-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids One-way packaging can represent up to half the environmental impacts of the food value chain and thus optimising its management is essential. Collective selective waste collection managed by authorised organisations (Extended Producer Responsibility, EPR), with or without Deposit-Refund Systems (DRS) are alternatives implemented at European level to handle this problem. Since there is no single simple formula that can be applied to every waste management system, this case study is focused on the entire Spanish model of one-way food packaging waste management, from collection of each fraction in specific containers to final treatment, considering eight different materials. For the analysis, six different impact categories were considered: abiotic depletion potential, global warming potential, acidification potential, eutrophication potential, ozone depletion potential and photochemical ozone formation. Results reveal that the recycling stage is the main stage contributing to the environmental impacts, but the environmental savings related to the recovery of materials in this stage compensates these loads and the system must be considered advantageous for the environment. By contrast, sorting plants present the lowest contributions and is the least significant stage. Significant environmental improvements (close to 10%) would be achieved by addressing the total bulk collection flow to mechanical-biological treatment and increasing the selective collection of light and glass packaging waste. This study can serve to identify common drivers that contribute significantly to the development of an integrated approach to waste packaging management and as baseline for comparison studies with alternative waste recovery technologies and systems.
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