Saioa Ramos

AZTI-Tecnalia

October 9th, 2015

Easy tool to evaluate social and environmental sustainability of food

products

Trend consumption towards healthier products

EU27 countries comprise the region that holds the largest consumption of fruit juice in the world

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INTRODUCTION

Main producers are found in Brazil, United States of America and in the Mediterranean area (Spain, Italy, Israel, Greece, Turkey).

Other important citrus producing areas are Central America (Mexico), Japan and China.

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INTRODUCTION

Life cycle of the orange juice supply chain

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Store Storage Fertilisers Pesticides

Processing Packaging

Transport

Retailing

Fridge

End of life

Orange production

Processing Retailing Consumption End of life

INTRODUCTION

Main impacts from life cycle stages

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Relation with other food products

INTRODUCTION

Within this framework the main objective of the SENSE project is to integrate a harmonized system for the assessment and reporting of the environmental and social impact of food products.

This system will include:

• Comprehensive and regionalized system of data collection to achieve comparable results;

• A set of key environmental performance indicators (kepi)

• A comprehensible and standardized social statement

• Standardized methodology for the environmental impact assessment

• A system of B2B and B2C communication

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MAIN OBJECTIVE

Obtain a simplified software to help SMEs to

assess the environmental and social impact

of their products

INTRODUCTION

Main environmental

impact KEPI’s

LCA Challenges

SENSE-TOOL EcoInvent

+ ESU

EID

Environmental Footprint

EID

CERTIFICATION SCHEME CONCEPT

• Sense tool

– Company profile: General information, facilities, products and social statement.

– Inventory: Process diagram + questionnaire

– Results: Impact + graphics EID

INTRODUCTION

LOG IN

Administrator Manager Guest

USER TYPES

INVENTORY

• The SENSE questionnaire uses ILO core labour standards as the basis for

assessing the proposed social impact indicator (labour standards/working

conditions)

• The questions are constructed to reflect:

– SME policies on labour standards – do they cover everything required? Do they meet

the standards laid down by each sector?

– How SMEs manage these policies – do they manage them? do they have good systems in place ?

– Evidence of SME good/best practice - do they communicate these policies to their first-tier suppliers? Do their commitments extend beyond this? Do they take positive action to address external costs in local communities? Do they make any public commitments to sustainable development (via company web-site/labeling)?

INVENTORY – social statetment

Named senior manager/board member/ company equivalent: with responsibility for labour-related issues, including supply chain operations. Max 25 point

Role and responsibilities are laid out as part of job description.

ILO core labour standards: Freedom of association/collective bargaining; no forced labour; no child labour; and equal opportunities. AND /OR Sector standards /codes and guidelines (where these exist) Max 25 point

Awareness of core labour standards; communicated at least within company; may extend to first tier suppliers and beyond.

Can provide evidence of managing/monitoring. AND/OR awareness of sector specific standards/codes; communicated within company/to first tier suppliers, with evidence of managing/monitoring.

INVENTORY – social statement

TOP DOWN APPROACH

INVENTORY – social statement

Largest category of worker specific to each sector

Can identify this category of worker using data from last financial year. Max 8 point

Written employment conditions

Systems in place to ensure workers receive written information about their employment conditions and wages they will receive. Max 8 point

Working hours

Systems in place to ensure working hours comply with national laws, and that workers are not required to work in excess of 48 hours per week on a regular basis. Max 8 point

Wages

Systems in place to ensure wages and benefits paid meet, at a minimum, national legal standards or industry benchmark standards. Max 8 point

Health and safety Systems in place to ensure working conditions are safe and hygienic. Training is in place and is regularly monitored by a senior manager. Max 8 point

Local communities Can demonstrate evidence of positive measures that address ‘external costs’ in local communities affected by production processes and activities. Max 10 point

BOTTOM UP APPROACH

• No evidence –SME provides no evidence of awareness of labour standards and/ or sector guides or guidelines up to first-tier suppliers, or awareness of external costs in local communities impacted by the product life cycle (baseline);

• Limited awareness –SME is aware of core labour standards and/or sector code or guidelines and of the external costs in local communities impacted by their production processes/ activities;

• Managing –SME has adopted policies to manage labour standards and working conditions in-house, and demonstrates evidence of actions taken to address external costs of product life cycle within local communities;

• Good practice –SME has policies on labour standards and working conditions in place, and has a formal management system in-house, and its policies are communicated at least as far as first-tier suppliers, and demonstrates evidence of actions taken to address external costs of product life cycle within local communities;

• Best practice – SME has good management systems for labour standards and working conditions are in place along the supply chain (beyond first-tier suppliers) and demonstrates evidence of actions taken to address external costs of product life cycle within local communities , including public statements of commitment (eg on web-site/labelling).

INVENTORY – social statement

INVENTORY

INVENTORY – PRODUCT ANALYSIS

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SELECTED KEPIS FOR FRUIT JUICE CHAINS

AGRICULTURE PROCESSING TRANSPORT

Product (kg/year) Product (kg/year) Transported amount (kg)

Fertilizers (kg/year) Share of product profit (%) Transportation carrier

Pesticides (kg/year) Incoming product (kg/year) Transport distance (km)

Land use (ha*year) Energy use (MJ, Kwh, L/year) Tª de transporte

Energy use (MJ, Kwh, L/ha) Fresh water use (m3/year)

Fresh water use (L/year) Wastes (kg/year)

Waste water (m3/year)

Packaging (kg/year)

INVENTORY – PRODUCT ANALYSIS

INVENOTRY – GUEST SUPPLIERS

Incoming products

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SELECTED ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS FOR FOOD SYSTEMS

Impact category Method Unit

Climate change IPCC (Solomon, 2007) kg CO2-eq

Terrestrial eutrophication Accumulated Exceedance (Seppälä et al., 2006, Posch et al., 2008)

molc N-eq

Acuatic eutrophication EUTREND model (Goedkoop et al., 2009) Agua dulce kg P-eq Mar kg N-eq

Acidification Accumulated Exceedance (Seppälä et al., 2006, Posch et al., 2008)

molc H+-eq

Human toxicity Modelo USEtox (Rosenbaum et al., 2008) CTUh (Comparative Toxic unit for humans)

Ecotoxicity Modelo USEtox (Rosenbaum et al., 2008) CTUe (Comparative Toxic Unit for ecosystems)

Land Use Soil organic matter model (Milà i Canals 2007)

kg C deficit

Abiotic resource depletion CML 2002 (Guinée et al., 2002) kg anitomio (Sb)-eq

Water resource depletion Ecological scarcity model (Frischknecht et al., 2009)

European m3 water-eq

RESULTS – Impact Categories

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Environmental footprint of the

product

SENSE TOOL OUTPUT

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Identify the input and processes with highest environmental impacts

To create new improvement scenarios

SENSE TOOL OUTPUT

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Compare environmental impact of different

product or scenarios

SENSE TOOL OUTPUT

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Assess the environmental trend of the product

SENSE TOOL OUTPUT

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COMUNICATE the environmental footprint

along the food chain

SENSE TOOL OUTPUT

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Product BENCHMARKING in

the same sector

SENSE TOOL OUTPUT

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COMUNICATION

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COMUNICATION

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BENEFITS

The tool has been test in 9 fruit juice industries. According to the testing the advantages for the companies are:

• Opportunity to have an environmental assessment based on LCA

• Identification of the improvement opportunities in the environmental aspects in your processes

• Collect the required information for the LCA inventory

• To get a report on the environmental impact associated to your products

• Collaborate in a pioneer European project which aims to promote sustainability in the food sector in Europe

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LIMITATIONS

LCA methodology and the chosen KEPIs in the SENSE project do not include environmental challenges like

• Impact in Biodiversity

• Land use change & indirect land use change (LUC; ILUC)

• Carbon sequestration

• Soil erosion

• Impacts of harvesting methods

Thanks for your attention