LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF COLD-PRESSED JUICE PRODUCT FOR CLEANER PRODUCTION (CASE STUDY OF PT X)

• Main Author: Syifa Puti Salim, Athira
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/85582
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on human behavior, particularly on lifestyle patterns, with society becoming more health-conscious. The shift towards a healthier lifestyle has driven the rapid global growth of the functional food industry, with cold-pressed juice products being a popular choice among Indonesians due to their convenience and variety, including products from PT X. As demand increases, the market expands, and the industry scales up, the negative environmental impact of production activities also grows. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate the production processes carried out by the company to meet sustainability principles and minimize negative environmental impacts. One approach to quantify the environmental impact of each stage in the cold-pressed juice production process is the life cycle assessment (LCA) method. This study quantifies environmental impacts such as global warming potential, depletion of abiotic resources, ozone layer depletion, terrestrial ecotoxicity, acidification potential, and eutrophication potential with a functional unit (FU) of one 250ml bottle of cold-pressed juice. According to the impact assessment in LCA, PT X's contributions are 6.85 x 107 kg CO2 eq for global warming potential, 2.50 x 10-9 kg Sb eq for abiotic resource depletion potential, 9.92 x 10-11 kg CFC-11 eq for ozone layer depletion potential, 1.30299 kg 1,4-DB eq for terrestrial ecotoxicity, 8.06 x 106 kg SO2 eq for acidification potential, and 4.40 x 105 kg PO4-3 eq for eutrophication potential. To further implement the method of cleaner production, PT X needs to review its initial sorting process, which has the highest impact in all environmental impact categories. Furthermore, based on the environmental impact assessment results, short-term, medium-term, and long-term improvement scenarios focusing on energy transition and waste management are proposed. These improvement scenarios aim to minimize the negative environmental impacts of PT X's production processes, particularly to reduce the global warming potential, which has the most significant contribution.