ECOtwins Second Annual Meeting
26/07/2024
The UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change at ESCI-UPF participated in the second annual meeting of the ECOtwins project, held at the University of Copenhagen on July 18th and 19th.
El investigador Gonzalo Blanca-Alcubilla, de la Cátedra UNESCO de Ciclo de Vida y Cambio Climático ESCI-UPF, recibe el Premio "Alfonso Maíllo" al mejor trabajo innovador sobre gestión de residuos en el congreso RECUWASTE 2018.
The RECUWASTE 2018 Congress, held from October 8 to 9 in Mataró (Barcelona), acknowledges the presentation of the ‘LIFE Zero Cabin Waste* Project – Tackling international airline catering waste by demonstrating integral and safe recollection, separation & treatment,’ aimed to reduce, reuse and recycle waste collected on airplanes.
The session “LIFE Zero Cabin Waste Project: Management of aviation waste. Environmental impacts from the perspective of the LCA,” by Gonzalo Blanca-Alcubilla, PhD Candidate of the Waste Management Research Line at the Chair, has received the “Alfonso Maíllo” Prize for the best innovative work on waste management, chosen through the vote of those attending the congress.
The LIFE Zero Cabin Waste Project “is intended to study the different waste streams generated in the aircraft cabin, to propose minimization measures and to implement separation of residues, as well as the collection and treatment of the different flows of waste,” explains Blanca-Alcubilla. During the presentation of his work at RECUWASTE, the researcher highlighted the impacts of the current catering waste management system in terms of greenhouse gases emissions, prior to the implementation of the selective collection. These environmental impacts associated with all the stages of the system has been measured applying Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology, and the work focuses on the stages with the greatest impact, which should be corrected.
Alba Bala, senior researcher coauthor of this work and leader of the Waste Management Research Line, has supported the implementation of the LCA methodology to analyse the environmental impacts of the system and find possible solutions towards its mitigation.
In line with the evolution that is taking place globally in the field of resource management, under the new paradigm of the circular economy, the RECUWASTE 2018 Congress organised a workshop series and conferences to raise awareness among businesses and consumers.
26/07/2024
The UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change at ESCI-UPF participated in the second annual meeting of the ECOtwins project, held at the University of Copenhagen on July 18th and 19th.
13/06/2024
Our researchers, Pere Fullana-i-Palmer and Ilija Sazdovski, collaborated with Harrison Tetteh, Rita Puig, and Mercè Balcells from the University of Lleida, and María Margallo and Ruben Aldaco from the University of Cantabria published a scientific research paper emphasizing the importance of extension of the shelf-life of products in Life Cycle Assessment.
15/05/2024
Cristina Campos, researcher of the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change at ESCI-UPF, has been in Seville from 5th to 9th May as a speaker at the SETAC Europe Annual Meeting. In this article, she comments on the preliminary results of the poster and the CICEP research project, as well as her experience at the conference.
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