Tourism management and industrial ecology: a case study of food service in Taiwan

The framework for studying boxed food was based on material flow analysis. Boxed food analysis can be divided into two parts: the meal box and the contents. Meal boxes were inventoried with a life cycle assessment (LCA). According to the findings of this study, environmental impacts from a PP meal box production were more expensive than others, while those from a PS meal box production were the lowest. The life cycle inventory analysis of the contents will be investigated with a new approach system in the next phase of our work. This new approach is an integration of the LCA with the Hazard Analysis Control Point (HACCP) system.