Environmental impact of an Italian wine bottle: Carbon and water footprint assessment

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 560-561, Issue , 2016, Pages 274-283

  Bonamente, Emanuele ^a   Scrucca, Flavio ^a   Rinaldi, Sara ^a   Merico, Maria Cleofe ^a   Asdrubali, Francesco ^b   Lamastra, Lucrezia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbon footprint; Environmental sustainability; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA); Water footprint; Wine industry

Indexed keywords

BOTTLES; CARBON FOOTPRINT; LIFE CYCLE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WINE;

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; FOOD SECTOR; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); PROTECTED DESIGNATION OF ORIGINS; WATER FOOTPRINT; WINE BOTTLES; WINE INDUSTRY;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

CARBON; WATER; GLASS;

CARBON FOOTPRINT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER FOOTPRINT; WINE INDUSTRY;

ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CORE MODULE; DOWNSTREAM MODULE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOOD PROCESSING; GLASS BOTTLE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MATERIALS HANDLING; PACKAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCT PARAMETERS; RECYCLING; RED WINE; UPSTREAM MODULE; WATER AND WATER RELATED PHENOMENA; WATER FOOTPRINT; WINE INDUSTRY; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; WASTE;

ITALY;

CARBON FOOTPRINT; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GLASS; WASTE PRODUCTS;

EID: 84963538264     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.04.026     Document Type: Article

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