Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules for Dry pasta Version number: 3.0 Date of publication: 18 April 2018 Date of expiration: 31st December 2020 0 This document has been prepared by the Technical Secretariat of the pilot with the support of Life Cycle Engineering. Please direct all questions regarding this report to: Paola Borla – Life Cycle Engineering srl e-mail: [email protected] 1 CONTENTS CONTENTS ................................................................................................................................................... 2 LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................................................................. 4 LIST OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................................................... 5 ACRONYMS .................................................................................................................................................. 6 DEFINITIONS ................................................................................................................................................ 7 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................. 13 2. GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PEFCR....................................................................................... 14 2.1. TECHNICAL SECRETARIAT ........................................................................................................................... 14 2.2. CONSULTATION AND STAKEHOLDERS ............................................................................................................ 14 2.3. REVIEW PANEL AND REVIEW REQUIREMENTS OF THE PEFCR ............................................................................. 16 2.4. REVIEW STATEMENT ................................................................................................................................. 16 2.5. GEOGRAPHICAL VALIDITY ........................................................................................................................... 17 2.6. LANGUAGE(S) OF PEFCR ........................................................................................................................... 17 2.7. CONFORMANCE TO OTHER DOCUMENTS ....................................................................................................... 17 3. PEFCR SCOPE ..................................................................................................................................... 18 3.1. PRODUCT CLASSIFICATION .......................................................................................................................... 18 3.2. REPRESENTATIVE PRODUCT ........................................................................................................................ 18 3.3. FUNCTIONAL UNIT AND REFERENCE FLOW ..................................................................................................... 19 3.4. SYSTEM BOUNDARY .................................................................................................................................. 20 3.5. EF IMPACT ASSESSMENT ............................................................................................................................ 22 3.6. LIMITATIONS ........................................................................................................................................... 24 4. MOST RELEVANT IMPACT CATEGORIES, LIFE CYCLE STAGES AND PROCESSES ...................................... 25 5. LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY....................................................................................................................... 26 5.1. LIST OF MANDATORY COMPANY SPECIFIC DATA ............................................................................................... 27 List of pasta ingredient and packaging materials ........................................................................................ 27 Energy consumption in pasta plant operations ........................................................................................... 27 Outbound transport ..................................................................................................................................... 28 5.2. LIST OF PROCESSES EXPECTED TO BE RUN BY THE COMPANY ............................................................................... 28 5.3. DATA GAPS ............................................................................................................................................. 28 5.4. DATA QUALITY REQUIREMENTS ................................................................................................................... 29 5.4.1 Company specific datasets .............................................................................................................. 29 5.5. DATA NEEDS MATRIX (DNM) ..................................................................................................................... 31 5.5.1 Processes in situation 1 ................................................................................................................... 33 5.5.2 Processes in situation 2 ................................................................................................................... 33 5.5.3 Processes in situation 3 ................................................................................................................... 34 5.6. WHICH DATASETS TO USE? ......................................................................................................................... 35 5.7. HOW TO CALCULATE THE AVERAGE DQR OF THE STUDY ................................................................................... 35 5.8. ALLOCATION RULES ................................................................................................................................... 36 5.9. ELECTRICITY MODELLING ............................................................................................................................ 37 2 5.10. CLIMATE CHANGE MODELLING .................................................................................................................... 40 5.11. MODELLING OF WASTES AND RECYCLED CONTENT ........................................................................................... 42 6. LIFE CYCLE STAGES ............................................................................................................................. 45 6.1. RAW MATERIAL ACQUISITION AND PRE-PROCESSING ........................................................................................ 45 6.2. AGRICULTURAL MODELLING ........................................................................................................................ 46 6.3. PACKAGING MATERIAL PRODUCTION ............................................................................................................ 48 6.4. MANUFACTURING .................................................................................................................................... 50 6.5. DISTRIBUTION STAGE ................................................................................................................................ 51 6.6. USE STAGE .............................................................................................................................................. 52 6.7. PACKAGING END OF LIFE STAGE ................................................................................................................... 54 7. PEF RESULTS ...................................................................................................................................... 56 7.1. BENCHMARK VALUES ................................................................................................................................ 56 7.2. PEF PROFILE ........................................................................................................................................... 57 7.3. ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION ......................................................................................................... 58 7.4. ADDITIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION ................................................................................................ 58 8. VERIFICATION .................................................................................................................................... 59 9. REFERENCES ...................................................................................................................................... 61 10. ANNEX 1 – LIST OF EF NORMALISATION AND WEIGHTING FACTORS ............................................... 62 10.1. NORMALISATION FACTORS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT ........................................................................... 62 10.2. WEIGHTING FACTORS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT ................................................................................. 63 11. ANNEX 2 – CHECK-LIST FOR THE PEF STUDY .................................................................................... 64 12. ANNEX 3 – CRITICAL REVIEW REPORT OF THE PEFCR ...................................................................... 65 13. ANNEX 4 – REPRESENTATIVE PRODUCT .......................................................................................... 71 Representative product ...............................................................................................................................