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Facing Challenge in Palm Oil Industry with LCA

Facing Challenge in Palm Oil Industry and Improving its Sustainable Innovation with LCA

Background

Indonesia’s fast-expanding economy and the ensuing widespread destruction of the country’s natural rainforest have drawn attention from across the world. Along with Malaysia, Indonesia is one of the nations that produces and exports the most palm oil globally. The sector has been essential to the economy of the nation, boosting employment, foreign exchange profits, and economic growth.


Challenge

When it comes to carbon mitigation, palm oil mills cause two problems: first, emissions from deforestation, and second, emissions from palm oil production. However, the extraction of palm oil is linked to carbon emissions from peatland drainage, plantation management, and processing, as well as from land removal and processing. These procedures cause the soil to release carbon and the mill effluent to produce methane.

In drained peatlands, organic matter can decompose and release methane, a powerful greenhouse gas with a much larger potential for global warming than carbon dioxide. These factors play a significant role in Indonesia’s loss of rainforest and significantly increase national pollution and emissions.


Solution

We provide our service using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to evaluate environmental effects based on products from industrial processes in accordance with ISO 14040. In this instance, we offer the assessment and the calculation of the probable environmental effects of global warming, acidification, eutrophication, and photochemical oxidation. Therefore, palm oil can calculate how much of an influence its milling process has, e.g., 1 kg CO2 for 1 L of palm oil. The palm oil business is aware of which process—known as a hotspot—contributes the most to the environment. It is also used as a tool for making decisions in order to enhance the environment with practical solutions based on LCA recommendations.


Benefit

As we know, palm oil leads to a bad campaign and draws attention to the fact that palm oil is too far from sustainable methods, according to some environmental issues. the fact that the public has a bad opinion of the industries that produce palm oil. However, there are other projects and advancements that will be made or already exist in the palm oil industry, from upstream to downstream.

As is well known, palm oil contains numerous resources that could be used as sustainable resources, either as products or byproducts. It can aid in the achievement of net zero opportunity for palm oil. In addition, knowing the life cycle impact is actually an alternative way to educate the market that palm oil could comply with planetary boundaries.

We can identify the emission source and development of recommendations for carbon reduction strategies such as renewable energy or waste recovery. Furthermore, After understanding the emission source, we develop a decarbonization and carbon offset project that can reduce carbon emissions in an effective and efficient way

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