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Life cycle assessment
What is life cycle assessment?
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) identifies the environmental impact of a product, process or service throughout the different stages of its life cycle, from cradle to grave. In principle, LCA takes into account all types of environmental burdens, from the extraction of the raw materials required for its manufacture through to its final disposal as waste, accounting for all resource consumption, such as water, soil, mineral resources, fuels…, and potentially hazardous emissions, such as carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, phosphates, heavy metals, pesticides…
The Product Life Cycle methodology can be applied partially to quantify and assess specific environmental impacts, such as greenhouse gas emissions, Carbon Footprint, or water use, Water Footprint. The application of this tool facilitates the quantification and assessment of the global environmental impacts associated with products and activities, making it possible to identify the most problematic stages from an environmental perspective and providing highly useful information for decision-making and the definition of environmental improvement plans.
The same methodology can be applied to other aspects, such as cost, Life Cycle Cost Analysis, and social aspects, Social LCA.
At AINIA, we add value
- More than 30 years serving the food industry
- Extensive experience in the design of more sustainable production systems based on circular economy criteria
Life cycle analysis and environmental footprint
- We carry out diagnostics of processes and facilities to identify opportunities to improve the economic and environmental sustainability of production processes and to apply Best Available Techniques, BAT.
- Reduction of costs and environmental impact related to resource consumption, water, energy, auxiliary materials, or waste generation, wastewater, by-product valorisation…
- Definition and environmental assessment of circular technologies and production systems. Calculation of the environmental footprint, Carbon Footprint, Water Footprint, Life Cycle Assessment, as tools for continuous improvement in the company.
- We provide environmental improvement solutions for industry that are viable from a technical, economic and environmental perspective
- In-depth analysis of production processes and auxiliary services, steam, refrigeration, compressed air, wastewater treatment…, quantification of impacts and prioritisation of environmental improvement actions
- Possibilities for internal reuse/recycling, energy, water
- Definition of eco-indicators and calculation of environmental footprints, Life Cycle Assessment, as tools for continuous improvement
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