Some universities have a commitment to both academic education and sustainable development, and the sustainable development goals can support several sustainable actions that universities may take as principles and attitudes. From this perspective, the purpose of this study is to present environmentally sustainable practices at a federal university in Brazil and to analyze and discuss the potential environmental impacts associated with an environmentally sustainable practice implemented using life cycle assessment (LCA) and its benefits for the university’s decision-makers.,To accomplish that, the study combines a description of environmentally sustainable practices at the 13 campuses of the Universidade Tecnologica Federal do Parana (UTFPR) in terms of education, water and electricity consumption, waste management and emissions. As a result of this analysis, one campus identified that a high volume of disposable plastic cups were being disposed of, for which the use of reusable plastic cups was introduced. In addition, an LCA study (ISO 14040:2006 and 14044:2006) quantified the benefits of the introduction of said reusable plastic cups.,The results show that the university is working on environmentally sustainable initiatives and policies to become greener. At the same time, using a systematic LCA made it possible to measure that replacing disposable plastic cups for reusable ones reduced waste generation but increased water consumption on the campus. Faced with this, a sensitization was carried out to reduce water consumption. Finally, the current study provides lessons on the environmental performance to universities interested in sustainable practices, fostering perspectives for a better world. The findings of this study encourage organizations to accomplish environmental actions toward greener universities. The study shows that institutions need to be reflective and analytical about how even “greening” measures have impacts, which can be mitigated if necessary.,The sustainable practical implications were reported, and an LCA was conducted to assess potential environmental impacts of reusable plastic cups. It was identified that raw material production is the phase that generates most environmental impacts during the life cycle of the product, along with the consumer use phase, due to the quantity of water used to wash the reusable cups. In addition, the practical contributions of this study are to provide insights to institutions that aim to use environmental actions, i.e. suggestions of sustainable paths toward a greener university.,This is one of the first studies to investigate and discuss sustainable practices at UTFPR/Brazil. The study assessed one of the practices using a scientific technique (LCA) to assess the impacts of reusable plastic cups distributed to the students of one of the 13 campuses. Although there are other studies on LCA in the literature, the value of this study lies in expanding what has already been experienced/found on the use of LCA to assess environmental practices in university campuses.

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巴西大学的可持续发展：发展环境可持续发展实践和生命周期评估案例研究

一些大学对学术教育和可持续发展都有承诺，可持续发展目标可以支持大学可能采取的几种可持续行动，作为原则和态度。从这个角度出发，本研究的目的是介绍巴西一所联邦大学的环境可持续实践，并分析和讨论与使用生命周期评估（LCA）实施的环境可持续实践相关的潜在环境影响及其对大学的利益。决策者。为此，该研究结合了巴拉那联邦技术大学（UTFPR）的13个校园在环境，环境可持续实践方面的描述，涉及教育，水和电消耗，废物管理和排放。分析的结果是，一个校园发现正在处理大量的一次性塑料杯，为此引入了可重复使用的塑料杯。此外，一项LCA研究（ISO 14040：2006和14044：2006）量化了引入所述可重复使用的塑料杯的好处。结果表明，该大学正在致力于环境可持续发展的倡议和政策，以实现绿色环保。同时，使用系统的LCA可以测量将一次性塑料杯替换为可重复使用的塑料杯减少了废物的产生，但增加了校园的用水量。面对这种情况，进行了敏化处理以减少水的消耗。最后，本研究为对可持续实践感兴趣的大学提供了有关环境绩效的课程，培养更美好世界的观点。这项研究的结果鼓励组织对绿色大学采取环境行动。研究表明，机构需要反思甚至分析“绿化”措施如何产生影响，必要时可以减轻这种影响。报告了可持续的实际影响，并进行了生命周期评估以评估可重复使用的塑料杯对环境的潜在影响。已经确定，由于用于洗涤可重复使用的杯子的水量，原材料生产是在产品生命周期内以及消费者使用阶段对环境产生最大影响的阶段。此外，这项研究的实际贡献是为旨在使用环境行动的机构提供见解，即 关于建立绿色大学的可持续发展道路的建议。，这是UTFPR /巴西进行的有关调查和讨论可持续发展实践的首批研究之一。该研究使用一种科学技术（LCA）评估了其中一种做法，以评估可再用塑料杯分发给13个校园之一的学生的影响。尽管文献中还对LCA进行了其他研究，但这项研究的价值在于扩大已经在使用LCA评估大学校园环境实践中获得的经验/发现。该研究使用一种科学技术（LCA）评估了其中一种做法，以评估可再用塑料杯分发给13个校园之一的学生的影响。尽管文献中还对LCA进行了其他研究，但这项研究的价值在于扩大已经在使用LCA评估大学校园环境实践中获得的经验/发现。该研究使用科学技术（LCA）评估了其中一种做法，以评估可再用塑料杯分发给13个校园之一的学生的影响。尽管文献中还对LCA进行了其他研究，但这项研究的价值在于扩展了使用LCA评估大学校园环境实践的经验/发现。