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Main Authors: Goglio, Pietro, Ponsioen, Thomas, Carrasco, Jaime, Tei, Francesco, Oosterkamp, Elsje, Pérez, Margarita, van der Wolf, Jan, Pyck, Nancy
Format: Artículo científico
Language:en
Published: The Science of the total environment 2025
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Online Access:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39869969/
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author Goglio, Pietro
Ponsioen, Thomas
Carrasco, Jaime
Tei, Francesco
Oosterkamp, Elsje
Pérez, Margarita
van der Wolf, Jan
Pyck, Nancy
author_facet Goglio, Pietro
Ponsioen, Thomas
Carrasco, Jaime
Tei, Francesco
Oosterkamp, Elsje
Pérez, Margarita
van der Wolf, Jan
Pyck, Nancy
Goglio, Pietro
Ponsioen, Thomas
Carrasco, Jaime
Tei, Francesco
Oosterkamp, Elsje
Pérez, Margarita
van der Wolf, Jan
Pyck, Nancy
collection PubMed - marine biology
contents Environmental impact of peat alternatives in growing media for European mushroom production. Goglio, Pietro Ponsioen, Thomas Carrasco, Jaime Tei, Francesco Oosterkamp, Elsje Pérez, Margarita van der Wolf, Jan Pyck, Nancy Agaricales Europe Soil Agriculture Environment Environmental Monitoring Button mushrooms are an important protein source with a production of >48 million metric tonnes in 2021. Several life cycle assessments (LCAs) have been employed in assessing mushroom cultivation. This paper assessed potential impacts of relevant alternatives (sphagnum moss, grass fibres, spent casing and bark) to peat as casing materials for mushroom production across Europe by using LCA using a cradle to farm gate approach. Here, we: i) compared the environmental impacts of mushroom produced with different growing media across Europe ii) identified environmental hotspots across the value chains of mushroom growing media and iii) provide insights on the sustainability of mushroom growing media production. Two functional units have been used the kg and € of harvested mushrooms. Data were gathered from mushroom producers and casing processors across Europe. Changes in casing material for mushroom production caused environmental trade-offs, by reducing the resource use for fossil and by moderately changing (
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spellingShingle Environmental impact of peat alternatives in growing media for European mushroom production.
Goglio, Pietro
Ponsioen, Thomas
Carrasco, Jaime
Tei, Francesco
Oosterkamp, Elsje
Pérez, Margarita
van der Wolf, Jan
Pyck, Nancy
Agaricales
Europe
Soil
Agriculture
Environment
Environmental Monitoring
Environmental impact of peat alternatives in growing media for European mushroom production. Goglio, Pietro Ponsioen, Thomas Carrasco, Jaime Tei, Francesco Oosterkamp, Elsje Pérez, Margarita van der Wolf, Jan Pyck, Nancy Agaricales Europe Soil Agriculture Environment Environmental Monitoring Button mushrooms are an important protein source with a production of >48 million metric tonnes in 2021. Several life cycle assessments (LCAs) have been employed in assessing mushroom cultivation. This paper assessed potential impacts of relevant alternatives (sphagnum moss, grass fibres, spent casing and bark) to peat as casing materials for mushroom production across Europe by using LCA using a cradle to farm gate approach. Here, we: i) compared the environmental impacts of mushroom produced with different growing media across Europe ii) identified environmental hotspots across the value chains of mushroom growing media and iii) provide insights on the sustainability of mushroom growing media production. Two functional units have been used the kg and € of harvested mushrooms. Data were gathered from mushroom producers and casing processors across Europe. Changes in casing material for mushroom production caused environmental trade-offs, by reducing the resource use for fossil and by moderately changing (
title Environmental impact of peat alternatives in growing media for European mushroom production.
topic Agaricales
Europe
Soil
Agriculture
Environment
Environmental Monitoring
url https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39869969/