Currently, carbon footprint (CF) analysis is gaining a role of primary interest within the
extensive literature regarding wine sustainability issues. It envisages the quantification of …

The ever-increasing volume of packaging waste is widely recognised as a key global
environmental challenge. Packaging is thus a central concern for advocates and analysts of …

Currently, the wine industry has gained great relevance worldwide. At the same time, the
sustainability of the business activity has positioned itself as one of the main challenges to …

Food packaging is an important industrial sector that has great influence on food loss and
waste. The search of optimal conditions to minimize the negative impacts of food packaging …

Viticulture is currently experiencing a gradual shift to more sustainable production practices.
Many producers see in this shift an opportunity to increase their sales, especially in a context …

Increasing awareness for sustainability has led to the proliferation of initiatives in the wine
industry. These initiatives mainly aim at managing the environmental aspects of wine …

A life cycle assessment (LCA) was used to characterize the environmental performance and
potential improvement opportunities related to conventional and organic apple production …

An important percentage of European wine appellations base their production on a broad
number of vine-growers that annually sell their grapes to the wineries under the specific …

Purpose This paper performs a life cycle assessment study for a white wine produced in the
northern part of Portugal, ie the white vinho verde. The purpose is to identify the …

The food sector represents one of the major impacting sectors from an environmental point
of view and, among all the products, wine emerges as one of the most studied by the …