Proposal of Package-to-Product Indicator for Carbon Footprint Assessment with Focus on the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60461373%3A22320%2F20%3A43920302" target="_blank" >RIV/60461373:22320/20:43920302 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/7/3034" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/7/3034</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12073034" target="_blank" >10.3390/su12073034</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Proposal of Package-to-Product Indicator for Carbon Footprint Assessment with Focus on the Czech Republic

Original language description

Today, packaging is an integral part of most foods and beverages. However, excessive and just one-time applications of packaging can bring about indisputable environmental impacts in the form of large amounts of waste generated. If we want to monitor the environmental impacts of packaging materials, it is advisable to assess them in a complex way including not only the specific packaging but also specific products. No universal methodology currently exists that would enable this type of complex assessment regarding the environmental impacts of packaging in relation to particular products. Therefore, the aim of our study was to develop and test a Package-to-Product (PtP) indicator. For this purpose, the life cycle assessment (LCA) was employed to analyse four selected products considering di erent life cycle stages of packaging and their impacts on the climate change category. The results of the study confirm that the values of the PtP indicator significantly differ for various products, thus emphasising the need to establish a uniform methodology for individual product groups, such as meat, dairy and vegetable products or beverages. The application of this indicator, however, enables a clear impact assessment of di erent packaging materials and allows the packaging manufacturers to reduce their overall environmental impacts.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sustainability

ISSN

2071-1050

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

1-17

UT code for WoS article

000531558100459

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85083572600