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Fungicide 10.6
Herbicide 10.2
Growth regulator 7.69
Insecticide 16.6
Unspecified pesticide 10.1
Pesticide cyclic N* 15.2 compounds
Pesticide acetamide- 12.80 anillide-compounds
Pesticide benzimidazole 3.62 compounds
Pesticide 5.27 dithiocarbamate
compounds
kg CO2eq/kg
kg CO2eq/kg
kg CO2eq/kg
kg CO2eq/kg
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kg CO2eq/kg
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kg CO2eq/kg
kg CO2eq/kg
EcoInvent fungicides
EcoInvent herbicides
EcoInvent growth regulators
EcoInvent insecticides
EcoInvent unspecified pesticide
EcoInvent cyclic N-compounds
EcoInvent acetamide-anillide compounds
EcoInvent benzimidazole compounds
EcoInvent dithiocarbamate compounds
chapter 5: the carbon footprint of ecuador’s banana
Table 44 Emission factors applied in the case of pesticides used during cultivation
Type
Amount
Unit
EcoInvent process at regional storehouse/RER1
Source: EcoInvent database (taken from Nemecek et al., 2007) 1 Average data from Europe.
* Nitrogen
refrigeration system. (details of these modifications are available from the authors upon request).
e) Sea transportation
Significant changes were required in relation to transportation by sea, since the emission factors that were available in the EcoInvent database did not match the characteristics of the ships described by the shipping companies interviewed.
f) Waste management: incineration with energy recovery
The EcoInvent process “Disposal, MSW [Municipal Solid Waste], to municipal incineration/CH [Switzerland]” (Doka, 2007) was applied in relation to the waste fraction sent to incineration facilities. Energy that was avoided, however, was included (550 kWh/tonnes of waste)41 to better reflect European state-of-the-art incinerators.
g) Wastewater treatment plants
The study done by Rodríguez-García et al. (2011), in which 26 Spanish wastewater treatment plants were evaluated, was used for the emission factor. This factor related to the treatment of the wastewater, generated from banana consumption at 0. 29 kg CO2-eq/m3.
41 See http://www.epa.gov/waste/nonhaz/municipal/wte/basic.htm.
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