Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi 70 (4), 548-554 (2004)

Life Cycle Inventory of Air Pollutants for Consumption of Tuna

WATARU MINAMI, KUNIHIRO YASUI,
KATSUYUKI NAKANO AND HEE-JOON KIM

Department of Ecological Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Aichi 441-8580, Japan

We established the Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) of air pollutants to analyze the environmental aspects of tuna consumption. Main findings were: 1) The fishing stage emitted more pollutants than other stages such as domestic consumption, transportation, processing, sale, cooking, sewage disposal and disposal. 2) The emission of air pollutants depended on the locations of tuna fishing. 3) The transportation route had a significant influence. 4) The life cycle emission of air pollutants depended on the proportion of edible parts.


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