Heidy M.

Valdez
HV7238
Due: 9/24/2019
Understanding Sustainability | Arch-761 | Fall 2019 | RIT

Assignment #4:

Production of Coca Cola Glass Bottles

Lifecycle Analysis
1* System Boundaries. To the

Disposal
garbage

Silica Sand From the Melting the From the People buy

Transport
Transport

Customer use
Manufacturing
Resource Extraction

extraction in mines to the silica sand at fabric to the them and

mines fabric high distributors drink the coca
temperatures who deliver cola
to produce the the bottles
Return them

Transport
glass
to the market
2* The lifetime of the glass bottle is around 1million year. or dispose
them in the
3* Inventory: trash

a. Materials: Silica Sand, Soda Ash, Limestone and cullet (furnace-ready, recycled glass).
b. Manufacturing process: the molten glass gobs are cut by a perfectly-timed blade to
ensure each gob is equal. Then molded glass is created by gravity feeding gobs of
molten glass into a forming machine, where pressure forms the neck and basic shape of
the bottle. Once its finished, the form is known as a parison. Then this parison is
transferred so the final touched of the bottle are given, using one of two different
processes: Press and Blow or Blow and Blow process.
Then the bottle is removed and transferred again to the annealing lehr. The lehr
preheats the bottle to a temperature of about 1050 Fahrenheit then gradually cools
them to about 390 fahrenheit. This process allows the glass to cool at an even rate
eliminating internal stresses in the glass that could lead to cracking or shattering.
c. Transportation: the bottles are packed and taken to the filling process.
d. Energy and other resources: it takes approximately 1 to 2 kWh per day to maintain a
fridge working. Assuming a person cools down a bottle per day to drink it. It would take
approximately 2 kWh to freeze a bottle of coca cola per day.
Costs: Transportation: 10 cents
Handling: 25 cents
Production of the coca cola: 6 to 10 cents

4* Compute impacts: the process of production of coca cola involves the exploitation of the soil
by mining to obtain the silica sand. Also it consumes a great amount of water and burns energy
which produces a release of a great amount of greenhouse gases. Although the glass bottles
can be used indefinitely, the consumer don’t necessarily return the bottles, but many dump
Heidy M. Valdez
HV7238
Due: 9/24/2019
Understanding Sustainability | Arch-761 | Fall 2019 | RIT

them in the trash, and coca cola has to get more resources to produce more glass. It could be a
perfect reuse recycle, it every single one was to be returned to the stores.

Metrics per sustainability dimension:

Environmental
Goal: By 2020, improve water efficiency in manufacturing operations by 25 percent
compared with a 2010 baseline.
Metric: In 2017, the water efficiency improved for the 15 th consecutive year, with a 2.55%
improvement over 2016, a 15% improvement over 2010. A 29.3% improvement since 2004.

Goal: By 2008, improve system energy use ratio (efficiency).

Metric: the efficiency improved by 10 based in
megajoules/liter of product.

Economical
Goal: by 2008 increase the economic impact in society. Salaries and charitable percent of
operating income. (the percentage is missing from the document)
Metric: By 2008, the economic impact grew by %3.784 percent. And the charitable
contributions remained the same as 2005.

Social
Goal: by 2008 equal of male and female.
Metric: from 51% male and 49% female on 2005 to 50% male and 50% female by 2008.

Goal: by 2008 have Workplace Rights.

Metric: by 2005 there was no Workplace Rights. By 2008 there are 93 Workplace Rights.
Heidy M. Valdez
HV7238
Due: 9/24/2019
Understanding Sustainability | Arch-761 | Fall 2019 | RIT

Bibliography
Coca-Cola Journey Homepage: The Coca-Cola Company, www.coca-
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/system-boundary

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