作者: Ilija Djekic , Bojan Blagojevic , Dragan Antic , Simo Cegar , Igor Tomasevic
DOI: 10.1016/J.JCLEPRO.2015.10.126
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摘要: The meat industry is recognized as one of the biggest polluters in food industry. Previous studies were much more focused on environmental impacts than practices within chain. aim this study was to assess Serbian companies. examined 16 slaughterhouses slaughtering 62.5% national production, and 14 processing plants contributing 58.2% nationally. level implementation evaluated respect managing energy usage, water waste handling wastewater discharge, deployed through five topics: Policy Objectives; Operational Knowledge; Communication; Performance Measurement Analysis. Results size type company their certification status. Higher levels found large companies opposed micro small sized companies, compared certified non-certified measurement for usage energy, discharge scored highest. Principal component analysis used reduce dimensionality into two principal components, termed 'environmental dimension' 'economic dimension'. obtained higher loadings most topics water, impacts. Energy an impact heavily loaded dimension', emphasizing that greatest financial benefit saving. This bottom-up approach analyzing on-site provides new evidence relating sector. It can help specialists managers sector, directing them how improve practices. Finally, our assessment tool could also motivate other sectors