The EDSS (Environmental Decision Support System) software, developed within the LIFE TTGG project, has successfully passed the validation by CSQA Certificazioni srl. The validation was implemented following the UNI EN ISO 14040 and 14044 standards requirements and the Product Category Rules (PEFCR) for Dairy products developed within the European Commission’s Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) methodology. […]
Let’s start from a fact: the environmental impact of packaging is much lower than that of dairy products. This, of course, does not justify over-sizing solutions (over-packaging). Especially when the goal is only to increase the volume of products to ensure greater visibility on the shelves. If over-packaging is an environmental (also) problem, the exact […]
Electricity consumption for cooling energy production represents between 30% and 50% of the total bill of dairies. Therefore, it is obviously crucial to consider the efficiency of refrigeration systems. Dairy managers often find themselves thinking about the opportunities and costs arising from the replacement of such plants, mainly for two reasons: a. obsolescence: the efficiency […]
The software EDSS (Environmental Decision Support System), developed within the LIFE TTGG project, allows to measure, pragmatically and straightforwardly, the environmental impacts of hard cheese production: from raw milk to milk processing, ripening, packaging, use, and end of life. The software allows assessing hot spots and identifying improvement strategies for the whole supply chain. The […]
Tuesday 28 June 2022 – 10h00 AM – 12h00 PM CET The Environmental decision support system (EDSS) On 28 June oriGIn and the LIFE TTGG project partners organize the online event “From the LIFE TTGG project the Environmental decision support system (EDSS): A new tool to support more sustainable and efficient PDO PGI supply […]
The geopolitical crisis of recent months has introduced a worrying level of uncertainty about gas supply, consequently increasing energy prices. In this scenario, companies are thinking with renewed interest about energy efficiency issues and the dairies producing Grana Padano are no exception. What can producers really do to protect themselves? Certainly, even in a medium-long […]
The EDSS software developed by the LIFE TTGG project concerns the dairy production of cow milk, but the way the tool has been designed and developed makes it suitable to support environmental decisions (EDSS, in Italian SSDA) also for other production companies with high energy consumption. First of all, let’s find out its working functions, EDSS […]
Using the software developed within the LIFE TTGG Project, the farmers of the Grana Padano PDO production chain can carry out environmental impact assessments and obtain an organic and objective representation of the performance related to their activity. At the end of each assessment, the software generates a downloadable Report, allowing a detailed view of […]
The determination of the environmental footprint of a dairy farm is a complex operation that requires data collection and processing. The LIFE TTGG project provides farmers belonging to the Grana Padano PDO chain a software that reduces time needed to evaluate the environmental profile of their product, in order to make possible the comparison with […]
Today, there are countless possibilities to mitigate the impacts of a dairy farm, and they involve different aspects of the same production reality. The optimization of the feed rations based on the close correspondence between animal needs and nutrient supply, for example, allows to increase productivity and minimize the excretion of organic matter; the improvement […]
