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chapter 5: the carbon footprint of ecuador’s banana
Table 28 Inventory data: collection centre
Inputs
Outputs
Item
Amount
Item
Amount
Bananas in boxes 1.00
Pallets,4 0.06
t. Palletized bananas3
u. Waste sent to landfill3
0.998 t.
2.153 kg.
Cardboard corner 4.59 u. protectors1
Polypropylene bands1 45.94 m.
Electricity2 6.55 kWh
Sources: 1Estimation from video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6d2J1V_ZUw); 2 Business Energy Advisor (2013); 3 Author’s calculations; 4 FAO (2013)
Table 29 Inventory data: from the collection centre to the port of departure
Collection centre
Port of departure
Distance (km)
Type of transport
A
A
B
C
D
E
F
Puerto Bolívar
Guayaquil
Guayaquil
Puerto Bolívar
Guayaquil
Guayaquil
Guayaquil
26.7 Non-refrigerated truck
192 Container reefer truck (TEU)
57.8 Non-refrigerated truck
49.3 Non-refrigerated truck
198 Container reefer truck (TEU)
64.9 Container reefer truck (TEU)
184 Container reefer truck (TEU)
Source: Data from questionnaires and Google Maps
d) Transport from plantation to port of departure
Instead of going through the collection centre, some farms send the fruit directly to the port of export. Refrigerated container (FEU39) trucks are used for this activity (Table 30).
e) Port of departure
At the Puerto Bolivar or Guayaquil harbours, the fruit is loaded onto the ship’s deck or onto the pallets that are located in the refrigerated hold. The energy inventory data that are associated with this stage (Table 31) include the electricity and fuel (Terminal Puerto Arica, 2011) used for the port’s loading equipment (mainly cranes), as well as the direct GHG emissions relating to the combustion of the fuel that is used (Luske, 2010).
f) Sea transportation
The main departure ports in Ecuador are Puerto Bolívar and Guayaquil (Table 32), from which an average has been calculated to establish the distance to the
39 FEU = 40-foot unit. It is equivalent to 2 TEU units (i.e. 17.42 tonnes of bananas).
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