Preliminary Life Cycle Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions at Transportation Phase of a Beverage Drink for Green Logistics

Jarotwan Koiwanit,Pimpen Pornchaloempong,Fonthong Riensuwarn,Penpicha Palungpaiboon,J.T Anderson

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202125902001

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As the transportation sector is one of the main emitters of large quantities of pollutions to the atmosphere, industries have been trying to cope with this issue and launch many campaigns or projects to reduce air pollutions. In any industries around the world, an electric vehicle is a part of alternative transportation mode which has recently experienced considerable growth. The paper aims to evaluate energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the food sector for the entire life cycle and particularly focusing on green road transportation. The focus of the analysis covers the mango powder drink mix transportation, distribution, and disposal aspects, especially for road transportation. The observed results showed that the electric vehicles have emissions reduction potential and consequently showed low impacts in Global Warming Potential (GWP) impact category. The environmental impact assessment identified that the primary source of energy use and GHG emissions was the transportation process from Hong Keaw plantation to King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) (0.025 kgCO2eq).

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Environmental changes influence all global communities and can impact companies in many different ways
The results clearly show that the primary source of energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) impacts are due to the transportation process from Hong Keaw plantation to King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), which accounted for 0.025 kgCO2eq (78.62% of the total emissions), followed by transportation from Port of Long Beach (US) to resellers, which accounted for 9.85E-07 kgCO2eq (18.81%), and, from resellers to disposal (1.5%) and from KMITL to Laem Chabang port (1.05%), respectively
The study showed that transportation by trucks from Hong Keaw plantation to KMITL are more polluted than others

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Environmental changes influence all global communities and can impact companies in many different ways. Within the food and beverage sector in which it plays a fundamental role in daily life, transportation is increasingly perceived as a dominant contributor to the carbon footprint contributing toward global warning. This is mainly because food is often shipped long distances [2]. As the new era of technology, logistics has been starting to play the crucial role for any industries in ensuring the success of the industry [3,4]. One way of doing so is to be successfully implemented in green logistics. As diesel vehicles are well known to have negative effects to human health, there is a significant push to reduce using these vehicles by switching to green transportation system [6]

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