The team at ANGAZ-TECH have been working hard as part of Work Package 7 to measure and ensure that the proposed products and processes as part of BBTWINS have the greatest environmental and economic impact. To do this, ANGAZ-TECH have taken a lifecycle approach to quantify and direct the projects developments.
As of now, the Intermediate Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is complete for both Dimitra’s peach cultivation and Portesa’s pork meat production.
For peach cultivation, the results show that the environmental impacts are most significant in terms of input consumption (fertilizers, water, and diesel), land use due to fertilization and plant protection products, and health risks related to particulate matter formation from fuel combustion. Potential mitigation strategies involve improving fertilization practices, enhancing water use efficiency, and switching to low-emission fuels for agricultural machinery.
Pork production has considerable environmental burdens related to animal feed production, electricity consumption, land use due to feed crop cultivation, and methane emissions from waste. The mitigation strategies could involve substituting high-impact feed ingredients with greener alternatives, optimizing electricity usage, harnessing waste-generated methane for energy production, and effective waste management practices.
