POEMS: A Case Study of an Italian Wine-Producing Firm |
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Authors: | Fulvio Ardente Giorgio Beccali Maurizio Cellura Antonino Marvuglia |
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Institution: | (1) Dipartimento di Ricerche Energetiche ed AMbientali (DREAM), Università degli Studi di Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy |
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Abstract: | Over the last decade, researchers paid much attention to concepts such as Design for Environment, Extended Producer Responsibility,
Responsible Chain Management, and Eco-design. Many management tools and standards (such as EMAS, ISO 14001, LCA, EPD, Ecolabel)
have been developed to support companies in the evaluation and management of their environmental performance and to pursue
continual environmental improvement. The more recent development of the aforesaid fields looks at interorganizational environmental
management. Such an approach can complement the more traditional intraorganizational corporate environmental management approaches
and tools. A typical example of this new trend is the Product Oriented Environmental Management System (POEMS), which represents
the natural evolution of the above-mentioned tools, combining the features of EMS, EPD and Ecolabel. Although the structure
of the POEMS is still not standardized, many experimental applications have yet been carried out in Europe. In developing
a POEMS, a company needs to determine all of the environmental impacts caused at all life-cycle stages of the product and,
ideally, to reduce all of them through a continual commitment. The aim of the present study was to perform a survey of the
developed POEMS models and to analyze their peculiarities and drawbacks in the application to Small and Medium Enterprises.
A case study regarding an Italian winery company is presented. The study analyzes the structure and the activities of the
examined firm, in order to estimate direct and indirect environmental impacts following a life-cycle approach. The chosen
functional unit is a 0.75-L bottle of red wine. The article also suggests some solutions to improve the environmental performances
of the firm’s products. |
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Keywords: | LCA POEMS Environmental product declaration Wine-making Small and medium enterprises |
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