Life Cycle Assessment of Cheese and Whey Production in the USA

2016 ◽  
pp. 141-174
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
The Usa

scholarly journals Life cycle assessment of cheese and whey production in the USA

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 1019-1035 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daesoo Kim ◽  
Greg Thoma ◽  
Darin Nutter ◽  
Franco Milani ◽  
Rick Ulrich ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
The Usa

Integration of life cycle assessment into planning and project delivery for pavements in the USA

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 1605-1619
Author(s):  
Milena Rangelov ◽  
Heather Dylla ◽  
John Davies ◽  
Nadarajah Sivaneswaran
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Project Delivery ◽  
The Usa

Life Cycle Assessment of Cheese and Whey Production in the USA

2016 ◽  
pp. 117-149
Author(s):  
Daesoo Kim ◽  
Greg Thoma ◽  
Darin Nutter ◽  
Franco Milani ◽  
Rick Ulrich ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
The Usa

scholarly journals A life cycle assessment of the environmental impacts of a beef system in the USA

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 441-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Senorpe Asem-Hiablie ◽  
Thomas Battagliese ◽  
Kimberly R. Stackhouse-Lawson ◽  
C. Alan Rotz
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
The Usa

scholarly journals Environmental impacts and resource use of Australian beef and lamb exported to the USA determined using life cycle assessment

2015 ◽  
Vol 94 ◽  
pp. 67-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Wiedemann ◽  
Eugene McGahan ◽  
Caoilinn Murphy ◽  
Ming-Jia Yan ◽  
Beverley Henry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
The Usa

scholarly journals Foundry Sand Source Reduction Options: Life Cycle Assessment Evaluation

Environments ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Samuel Ghormley ◽  
Robert Williams ◽  
Bruce Dvorak
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Source Reduction ◽  
Minimal Impact ◽  
Transportation Distance ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Sand Source ◽  
Lca Results

Foundries represent a significant part of the world’s economy and are a large consumer of energy and producer of solid waste. Sand-handling processes can use 5–10% of a foundry’s total energy. The goal of this research was to explore source reduction and waste minimization at a foundry, using both economic and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) techniques to compare three secondary sand-reclamation options. LCA software modeled all sand processes at a mid-sized ferrous foundry in the USA. The LCA showed all secondary reclamation technologies, while more energy intensive at the foundry, lowered life cycle environmental impacts, including GHG emissions, ecotoxicity, and human health indicators, due primarily to source reduction and corresponding reduction in transportation both from the virgin sand source and to the landfill. Varying transportation distance had a large impact on LCA results to the point where the life cycle benefit of secondary reclamation became a liability in a zero distance scenario. Varying electricity generation to favor greener sources was also examined, but proved to have minimal impact on the LCA results. This research suggests that the greatest reduction of life cycle impacts in the sand-handling processes for a foundry is to find a geographically closer source for virgin sand.

scholarly journals Sustainable Wine Scoring System (SWSS): A life cycle assessment (LCA) multivariable approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 03016 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.E. Valero ◽  
J.A. Howarter ◽  
J.W. Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Ozone Depletion ◽  
Scoring System ◽  
Impact Categories ◽  
Reference Region ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Environmental Impact Categories ◽  
The Impact

Sustainable practices have become accepted by a large part of the wine community as a necessary step to face climate change challenges and natural resources depletion. Also, in recent years, there is a rising influence of sustainability on consumer’s buying decision. However, buyers fail to distinguish sustainable attributes from wine that is promoted under different sustainability labels. Moreover, wineries find it challenging to quantify the improvement of their environmental impact when following a specific sustainable practice. The objective of this study is to evaluate the methodology for the development of a Sustainable Wine Scoring System (SWSS). The SWSS aims to be a single numeric index of the sustainable attribute of a bottle of wine, constituted by multiple normalized indicators. Our initial approach for the SWSS is to quantify different environmental impact categories following a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), to then normalizes and weighs the result regarding a reference region. We used as a case of study “Craft Wineries” in Indiana in the USA, as a non-traditional winemaking area. The impact assessment was conducted using SimaPro8.5 in accordance to TRACI2.1 for the USA. As result of our LCA, grape growing is the process that contributes the most to the ecotoxicity, non-carcinogenic, and eutrophication impact categories, while transportation stages contribute the most to global warming potential, smog, and ozone depletion. The calculated SWSS results vary from 279 for the scenario with the highest environmental impact to 350 for the best performance scenario. The SWSS has the potential to represent sustainable attributes of wine in a more suitable way than a single isolated indicator such as carbon footprint.

scholarly journals A life cycle assessment of Agaricus bisporus mushroom production in the USA

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 456-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany Robinson ◽  
Kiara Winans ◽  
Alissa Kendall ◽  
Jeff Dlott ◽  
Franklin Dlott
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Agaricus Bisporus ◽  
Mushroom Production ◽  
The Usa
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