Defined scenarios and data inventories for preliminary sustainability assessment

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contents <p>In CIRCULAR FoodPack project, the newly developed value chains as part of WP2 and WP3 are assessed by means of a holistic life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA), taking into account environmental impacts through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), economic impacts through Life Cycle Costing (LCC) and social impacts through Social LCA (S-LCA).</p> <p>Within the life cycle thinking approach, four phases are relevant to obtain the assessments:</p> <p>a)  the goal and scope definition phase,<br>b)  the inventory analysis phase,<br>c)  the impact assessment phase and<br>d)  the interpretation phase (ISO 14044, 2006).</p> <p>From June 2021 to November 2022, the emphasis was placed on the first two phases. This comprises the definition of the different scenarios which are based on the three use cases that are home packaging (H), personal care packaging (PC) and food packaging (F) including the following six demonstrators/applications: Wet wipes (H1), Detergent tabs (H2), Cosmetics in sachets (PC1), Chocolate powder (F1), Coffee (F2) and Creamer (F3). Regarding the applications, three main loops (loop 1-3) are considered differing for instance in the input of either mixed food-flexibles and non-food flexibles or solely food-flexibles. Another important step was the creation of process flow schemes in close cooperation with the project partners for the following processes:</p> <ol> <li>Collection, SoA sorting and Tracer-based sorting,</li> <li>Pretreatment including Oversorting, Shredding, Washing, Grinding and Float-sink separation,</li> <li>Purification with option A-CreaSolv®® and option B-Deinking and Delamination,</li> <li>Posttreatment consisting of Recompounding and Deodorization,</li> <li>Laminate production and also considering Ink production, Primer production and Tracer production and</li> <li>Food packaging production.</li> </ol> <p>Based on this work, data collection for LCA and LCC inventories is completed by the respective partners to obtain the data for the preliminary sustainability assessment. The collection of S-LCA data is not considered in this deliverable as the impact indicators relevant for the system will be selected in a next step.</p> <p> </p> <p>Note: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101003806.</p>
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spellingShingle Defined scenarios and data inventories for preliminary sustainability assessment
Ghent University
flexibel food packaging
flexible packaging
food packaging
circular plastics
sustainability assessment
<p>In CIRCULAR FoodPack project, the newly developed value chains as part of WP2 and WP3 are assessed by means of a holistic life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA), taking into account environmental impacts through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), economic impacts through Life Cycle Costing (LCC) and social impacts through Social LCA (S-LCA).</p> <p>Within the life cycle thinking approach, four phases are relevant to obtain the assessments:</p> <p>a)  the goal and scope definition phase,<br>b)  the inventory analysis phase,<br>c)  the impact assessment phase and<br>d)  the interpretation phase (ISO 14044, 2006).</p> <p>From June 2021 to November 2022, the emphasis was placed on the first two phases. This comprises the definition of the different scenarios which are based on the three use cases that are home packaging (H), personal care packaging (PC) and food packaging (F) including the following six demonstrators/applications: Wet wipes (H1), Detergent tabs (H2), Cosmetics in sachets (PC1), Chocolate powder (F1), Coffee (F2) and Creamer (F3). Regarding the applications, three main loops (loop 1-3) are considered differing for instance in the input of either mixed food-flexibles and non-food flexibles or solely food-flexibles. Another important step was the creation of process flow schemes in close cooperation with the project partners for the following processes:</p> <ol> <li>Collection, SoA sorting and Tracer-based sorting,</li> <li>Pretreatment including Oversorting, Shredding, Washing, Grinding and Float-sink separation,</li> <li>Purification with option A-CreaSolv®® and option B-Deinking and Delamination,</li> <li>Posttreatment consisting of Recompounding and Deodorization,</li> <li>Laminate production and also considering Ink production, Primer production and Tracer production and</li> <li>Food packaging production.</li> </ol> <p>Based on this work, data collection for LCA and LCC inventories is completed by the respective partners to obtain the data for the preliminary sustainability assessment. The collection of S-LCA data is not considered in this deliverable as the impact indicators relevant for the system will be selected in a next step.</p> <p> </p> <p>Note: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101003806.</p>
title Defined scenarios and data inventories for preliminary sustainability assessment
topic flexibel food packaging
flexible packaging
food packaging
circular plastics
sustainability assessment
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14748927