Conference Papers

This paper presents the environmental risk factors and the possible negative impacts on the environment from intensive farming of laying hens in storage conditions and valorization of poultry manure as natural fertilizer. The experiments and the analytical determinations were performed in the second phase of the project with the acronym VITAOU within PN II INNOVATION program, experimenting the first set of four innovative nutritional solutions for laying hens. The environmental risk factors are the existing pollutants in poultry manure: nitrogen and phosphorus compounds, heavy metals and pathogens. The obtained results show that the concentration of these elements in poultry manure is well below the limits imposed by environmental legislation. Therefore the poultry manure may become polluter only when failure to comply the good agricultural practices of fertilization. Comparing the concentration values of the four nutritional solutions with the concentration values obtained for the reference recipe was carried out a ranking of the nutritional solutions in terms of environmental impact in order to choose the best two nutritional solutions based on quality/cost environmental impact performance.

Evaluation of environmental performance is used by the top management to make informed decisions about the efficiency and effectiveness of operation environmental management system and to prioritize the environmental line from one stage to another. Selection and use in environmental analysis the relevant indicators for organization is always the key of success for a fast and effective management reviews. This paper aims to provide a guide for reporting environmental performance for organizations in the food industry, specifically in the brewing and beverage industries, easy to use by the top management in the periodic performed analyses. The guide is composed by tables with sets of general indicators / generic and specific: - energy efficiency, - efficient use of raw materials and materials, - use of water resources, - minimizing waste, - minimizing emissions (discharges to air, water, soil), - maintaining biodiversity. Sets of indicators proposed, of a general/generic nature, relevant to the food industry are understandable thereby facilitating assessment of environmental performance in any organization. From these indicators of general / generic nature can be derived specific indicators for various industries to enable organizations to improve the identification and reporting their environmental performance to all stakeholders.

This paper presents a method for assessing the environmental impacts associated with environmental aspects generated from the activities, products or services of an organization, environmental aspects related to new or planned developments, to new or modified activities products and services. The method takes into account the normal and abnormal operating situations, and the emergency situations. The method proposed for assessing the environmental impacts uses a grid with four evaluation criteria, for each criterion is assigned a rating from 1 to 10. The purpose of assessment of environmental impacts is to identify and then keeping under control the environmental aspects that have or can have a significant impact on the environment. The method is used in INCD ECOIND in the compartment Management Systems for the initial environmental analysis performed into organizations in the purpose to design, develop and implement the environmental management system according to SR EN ISO 14001:2005 standard.