A proposal of customized Life Cycle model to circularity challenges in the olive-oil supply chain

The attention to a sustainable production, obtained according to the principles of circular economy, concerns various production sectors, including agriculture. Specifically, the adoption of circular strategies for those sectors from which high quantities of by-products emerge could prove to be a winning strategy in terms of reducing environmental impacts while increasing profitability. This study analyses the possibility of switching from a linear take-make-dispose system to a circular cradle to cradle system for the olive oil sector. The proposal concerns a customized Life Cycle model within the PRIN, 2017 project entitled “DRiving the itAlian agri-food SysTem into a Circular economy model” (DRASTIC). This model will implement Life Cycle approaches applied to the agro-ecological and agro-industrial subsystems to examine environmental, economic and social performances of circular economy solutions.