Lieselot Boone

Ghent University | UGhent · Department of Green Chemistry and Technology

The growing production of pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals, e.g., methylcobalamin supplements, improves the health of people. This study assesses the environmental footprint of chewable methylcobalamin supplements in four packaging types: blister packs or bottles made of HDPE, PET, or glass. A cradle-to-grave life cycle assessment is conducted to...

Packaging can play a substantial role in moving towards more sustainable food systems by affecting the amount of food loss and waste. However, the use of plastic packaging gives rise to environmental concerns, such as high energy and fossil resource use, and waste management issues such as marine litter. Alternative biobased, biodegradable material...

The relationship between consumer behaviour, food-packaging system, and food loss and waste (FLW) has often been overlooked within environmental sustainability assessments of food products. The aim of this study was twofold: (1) to quantify the food and packaging flows of the combination of four packed chicken products and four types of household b...

In order to establish a sustainable circular economy, it is crucial to consider all domains of sustainability and to apply approaches and assessment methods that allow for the identification of trade-offs and imbalances between different sustainability targets. The goal of the ORIENTING project is to develop a robust and operational methodology for...

This deliverable is part of the ORIENTING project and describes the work that has been done in Task 1.3 (in WP1), about the analysis of social approaches for life cycle sustainability assessment. The goal of Task 1.3, and hence of this deliverable, is to identify and select the best available and promising methods and sources of social life cycle i...

Nowadays, a variety of methodologies are available to assess local, regional and global impacts of human activities on ecosystems, which include Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) and Ecosystem Services Assessment (ESA). However, none can individually assess both the positive and negative impacts of human activities at...

Food wastage is an environmental concern worldwide, particularly regarding households. This study aims to identify household food wasting segments and to assess the relationship between both consumer and food product determinants and the identified segments. Data were collected through a consumer survey of several packaged chicken products (n = 256...

Responsible water use and sustainable consumption and production are high on the agenda of multiple stakeholders. Different water supply sources are available, including tap water, bottled water, domestically harvested rainwater and domestically abstracted groundwater. The extent to which each of these water supply sources is used, differs over con...

Policy can influence the long-term agricultural resource productivity by stimulating/discouragingfarmers to apply certain land use practices (LUP), as LUPs may affect the soil organic carbon (SOC) stock,hence influencing crop productivity. We introduce six policy strategies, each characterized by its ownmix of LUPs, for the Flemish agricultural sec...

Today, there is an ongoing debate about the environmental sustainability of the products of organic farming. To compare the performance of conventional and organic farming systems regarding environmental impact and productivity, the comprehensive environmental assessment tool ‘life cycle assessment’ can be used. The lower crop yields attained by or...

Management practices can affect strongly the quality of agricultural soil. One tool that may assist in sustainable farm management is life cycle (impact) assessment (LC(I)A). However, under the area of protection (AoP) natural resources, effects of land use on soil quality are rather poorly addressed. Additional LCIA methods are therefore needed to...

The rising demand for feed and food has put an increasing pressure on agriculture, with agricultural intensification as a direct response. Notwithstanding the higher crop productivity, intensive agriculture management entails many adverse environmental impacts. Worldwide, soil organic carbon (SOC) decline is hereby considered as a main danger which...

This cooperative study between Ghent University and Janssen Pharmaceutica proposes the learning curve of cumulative resource consumption of pharmaceutical tablet manufacturing of PREZISTA® 800 mg through Wet Granulation (WG) at four consecutive scales in both R&D and manufacturing environments (resp. WG1 = 1 kg/h, WG5 = 5 kg/h, WG30 = 30 kg/h and W...