ORIGINAL RESEARCH
LCA Analysis of Greenhouse Tomato Producers’
Waste Disposal Methods: A Case Study in Turkey
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Department of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Faculty, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey
Submission date: 2019-08-07
Final revision date: 2019-09-20
Acceptance date: 2019-10-27
Online publication date: 2020-03-05
Publication date: 2020-05-12
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Makbule Nisa Mencet Yelboga
Department of Agricultural Economics Agricultural Faculty, Akdeniz University, KAMPUS, 07070, ANTALYA, Turkey
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2020;29(5):3431-3439
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ABSTRACT
Due to rapidly growing technology in the 20th century, the production sector achieved great
progress as well as causing a serious environmental problem which we call “waste”. As a major
production sector, agriculture plays an important role in Turkey and creates a significant amount of
waste in pre-production, production and post-production stages of agricultural outputs. Tomato
production, which accounts for 48% of total greenhouse vegetable production in Turkey, is the main
focus of this study since it generates a considerable amount of waste. The study uses 1 kg tomato
produced in greenhouse conditions during a production season in 2019 as functional unit. Waste types,
waste amounts and disposal method variables are taken from the tomato producers in the Antalya
region who were selected by stratified random sampling method. With the scenarios created in the
LCA program according to certain demographic characteristics of producers, variables are entered into
the LCA program and impact assessment results are compared by using recipe methodology. Finally,
the relationships between demographic criteria of producers and environmental impact results are
discussed.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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