Comparative analyses of pig farming management systems using the Life Cycle Assessment method
Authors:
- Agnieszka Makara,
- Zygmunt Kowalski,
- Łukasz Lelek,
- Joanna Kulczycka
Abstract
The Life Cycle Assessment method was used to analyse and compare the environmental impacts of three systems of pig farming management: pig farming with pig manure fertilisation; pig farming using a manure treatment and a filtration method involving the production of mineral-organic fertilisers from manure; and pig farming in which 50% of the manure produced per y was used as fertiliser, and the other 50% was used in the treatment and filtration method. The LCA results revealed that fertiliser production from the manure processed by the treatment and filtration method had the greatest environmental impact. Direct fertilisation with manure was characterised by a 14.2% lesser impact, and combined fertiliser production from treated manure and direct manure fertilisation had a 7.0% lesser impact. The proper use of manure as a fertiliser could be the best option. The proposed system of pig manure management entails the simultaneous direct application of pig manure as fertiliser and its processing into mineral-organic fertiliser and could be an interesting environmental alternative.
- Record ID
- CUT7dd8e97de05946a78609a430e7badc31
- Publication categories
- ;
- Author
- Journal series
- Journal of Cleaner Production, ISSN 0959-6526, e-ISSN 1879-1786
- Issue year
- 2019
- Vol
- 241
- Other elements of collation
- tab.; wykr.; Bibliografia (na s.) - [1-38]; Bibliografia (liczba pozycji) - 38; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr.; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 241
- Keywords in English
- life cycle assessment, pig farming, manure management, environmental impact
- DOI
- DOI:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118305 Opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652619331750 Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- Score (nominal)
- 140
- Additional fields
- Indeksowana w: Web of Science, Scopus
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUT7dd8e97de05946a78609a430e7badc31/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUT7dd8e97de05946a78609a430e7badc31
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