Prevenção do desperdício alimentar sob a avaliação de ciclo de vida : ferramenta e aplicação em casos práticos

• Ano de defesa: 2018
• Autor(a) principal: Creus, Alba Cánovas
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Brasil; Instituto Alberto Luiz Coimbra de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa de Engenharia; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção; UFRJ
• Palavras-chave em Português: Desperdício de alimentos; Avaliação de ciclo de vida; CNPQ::ENGENHARIAS::ENGENHARIA DE PRODUCAO
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11422/12260

This thesis has as main subject the study of food wastage (food losses and waste) and how Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) can be implemented into this topic regarding prevention of food wastage. The main objective is to build an LCA-based tool which allows assessing environmental avoided impacts due to prevention of food wastage strategies. In order to do that, a literature review of the main approaches used is performed and some guidelines are proposed. Along with these and the main tool, two practical cases are assessed, both located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. One of them assesses the potential avoidable food wastage and associated carbon footprint in two restaurants, the other assesses a prevention strategy from wholesales to consumption, in a social restaurant, also from a climate change perspective. Auxiliary research yields that little data is currently available in Brazil regarding food wastage amounts, a setback in the study of LCA practical cases. Nevertheless, some proposals are posed for future research when such data becomes available in order to assess several prevention strategies in Brazil, for decision makers in public policy or private stakeholders.