Why Different Methods Deliver Different Packaging Carbon Footprint Results?
(0) Current environmental pressures related to global warming have forced the development of severalmethodologies to quantify and minimize this effect as well as an increasing interest of the stakeholders involvedin the product life cycle. Nowadays different carbon footprint methods are being used waiting for ahopefully upcoming and still under discussion new international standard (future ISO 14067). Despite thisthere are some current approaches that are commonly accepted i.e. PAS 2050 and methods based on Life CycleAssessment. When packaging carbon footprint calculations are made, results will probably differ accordingto the method that has been applied. This work shows how different carbon footprint methodologies coulddeliver different results on packaging carbon footprint. Main critical aspects related to the methods used areput on the forefront. Sensibility analysis according key parameters shows how they affect results and howmuch they vary. Moreover the influence of other key issues on the results is also analyzed in order to findwhat the main hot spots on carbon footprint calculations are, especially when they are applied for packagingpurposes. These analyses are based on calculations from real businesses packaging cases developed in 2010by Spanish companies from different economic sectors. Conclusions on what seems to be the best method areprovided.
A.Dobon M.Calero M.Hortal
Sustainability Division Packaging, Transport and Logistics Research Center -ITENE C/ Albert Einstein, 1 46980 Paterna, Valencia (Spain)
国际会议
The 17th IAPRI World Conference on Packaging(第17届世界包装大会)
天津
英文
830-835
2010-10-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）