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24-05-2023
Launch of Foundation Earth's LCA Methodology for environmental footprint labelling
Over the last year Blonk worked with Foundation Earth to develop a harmonised methodology to assess the environmental impact of food and drink products. On 15 March 2023 Foundation Earth officially launched the new methodology, based on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approach.
31-12-2022
Ecolabeling food products under a harmonised method
To make a fair comparison between the environmental impact of food products, consistent footprinting calculations are necessary. Foundation Earth, an independent, non-profit organisation established to issue front-of-pack environmental scores on food products, is working with Blonk and Deutsches Institut für Lebensmitteltechnik (DIL) to develop a harmonised methodology and establish a standard for European food product scoring.
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HortiFootprint Category Rules
There didn’t exist an up-to-date standard methodology to calculate the environmental impacts of horticultural products, like fruits, vegetables, flowers and plants. To meet consumer and industry stakeholder demands for environmental impact information, in 2018, a project was started to develop uniform calculation guidelines to be accepted across the whole horticultural value chain and in line with European directives. Blonk was part of the project team and involved as an expert.
LCA standard for Growing Media Europe
Growing Media Europe (GME) is an international non-profit organization representing the producers of growing media and soil improvers at European level. Growing media are materials other than soil in situ in which plants and mushrooms are grown. For GME Blonk developed an uniform LCA Toolbox, in line with the European PEF method. A ‘task force’ of expert industry advisers were involved the development of the LCA standard.
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Product Environmental Footprint
Understanding and measuring the environmental impact of products can be a big challenge for consumers and producers due to numerous labels. To address this, the European Commission proposed to develop a standardized approach for measuring and communicating environmental performance throughout the life cycle - the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) method. Since 2015 Blonk has been involved intensively in the EU PEF developments.