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DOI	10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107539
	Estimating carbon and plastic emissions of seafood products in trade routes between the European Union and South America
	Sanchez-Matos, Joan; Vazquez-Rowe, Ian; Kahhat, Ramzy
发表日期	2024
ISSN	0921-3449
EISSN	1879-0658
起始页码	205
卷号	205
英文摘要	International trade in fishery and aquaculture products is an important means of providing feed and food for different countries around the world. However, it is also responsible for multiple environmental impacts, namely climate change, as well as novel environmental aspects, such as plastic emissions, through its entire life cycle. In fact, plastic emissions are gaining increasing attention due to their presence in a variety of environmental compartments, especially in marine ecosystems. Hence, this study estimated the carbon footprint and the plastic emissions into the oceans from fishing and aquaculture trade between the European Union (EU) and South America (SA), based on a life cycle perspective. The results reveal that there is an imbalance both in terms of mass and carbon emissions between the import and export flows. SA exports eight-fold more aquaculture and fishing products (877,000 t) than those it imports (112,000 t), emitting twelve-fold more greenhouse gasses (2.9 million metric tons CO2eq.) than the EU (242,000 t CO2eq.), demonstrating the existence of seafood trade imbalances between the two regions. The entire trading releases into the ocean at least 263 t of macroplastic, and 45 t of microplastics from the fishing phase. This suggests the importance of the environmental impacts of the trade flows of aquaculture and fishing products, and the urgent need to decrease carbon emissions and provide more sustainable alternatives to plastic materials in fishing gear.
英文关键词	Climate change; Industrial ecology; Life cycle assessment; Material flow analysis; Plastic waste; Seafood
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Engineering ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS类目	Engineering, Environmental ; Environmental Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:001207504200001
来源期刊	RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/288808
作者单位	Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sanchez-Matos, Joan,Vazquez-Rowe, Ian,Kahhat, Ramzy. Estimating carbon and plastic emissions of seafood products in trade routes between the European Union and South America[J],2024,205.
APA	Sanchez-Matos, Joan,Vazquez-Rowe, Ian,&Kahhat, Ramzy.(2024).Estimating carbon and plastic emissions of seafood products in trade routes between the European Union and South America.RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING,205.
MLA	Sanchez-Matos, Joan,et al."Estimating carbon and plastic emissions of seafood products in trade routes between the European Union and South America".RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING 205(2024).