期刊
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
卷 565, 期 -, 页码 576-585出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.04.174
关键词
Global warming potential; Eutrophication; Acidification; Photochemical ozone formation; Abiotic resource depletion
资金
- Italian Ministry of Agricultural, Food, Forestry Policies (MiPAAF) [DM 30277/7303/2009]
Four breeding piggeries and eight growing-fattening piggeries were analyzed to estimate potential environmental impacts of heavy pig production (>160 kg of live height at slaughtering). Life Cycle Assessment methodology was adopted in the study, considering a system from breeding phase to growing fattening phase. Environmental impacts of breeding phase and growing-fattening phase were accounted separately and then combined to obtain the impacts of heavy pig production. The functional unit was 1 kg of live weight gain. Impact categories investigated were global warming (GW), acidification (AC), eutrophication (EU), abiotic depletion (AD), and photochemical ozone formation (PO). The total environmental impact of 1 kg of live weight gain was 3.3 kg CO(2)eq, 4.9 E-2 kg SO(2)eq, 3.1 E-2 kg PO43- eq, 3.7 E-3 kg Sbeq, 1.7 E-3 kg C(2)H(4)eq for GW, AC, EU, AD, and PO respectively. Feed production was the main hotspot in all impact categories. Greenhouse gases responsible for GW were mainly CH4, N2O, and CO2. Ammonia was the most important source of AC, sharing about 90%. Nitrate and NH3 were the main emissions responsible for EU, whereas P and NOx showed minor contributions. Crude oil and natural gas consumption was the main source of AD. A large spectrum of pollutants had a significant impact on PO: they comprised CH4 from manure fermentation, CO2 caused by fossil fuel combustion in agricultural operations and industrial processes, ethane and propene emitted during oil extraction and refining, and hexane used in soybean oil extraction. The farm characteristics that best explained the results were fundamentally connected with performance indicators Farms showed a wide variability of results, meaning that there was wide margin for improving the environmental performance of either breeding or growing-fattening farms. The effectiveness of some mitigation measures was evaluated and the results that could be obtained by their introduction have been presented. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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