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Carbon Emissions and Economic Cost of Different Collection, Storage, and Transportation Models for Crop Straw Off-Field Utilization

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The off-field utilization of crop straw requires a highly efficient collection, storage, and transportation system, focusing on the synergistic optimization of efficiency, cost, and carbon emissions. Four typical scenarios are selected to identify co-benefits in the town scaled straw transfer site: all-manual collection (I), 50% manual collection (II), small-scale machinery collection (III), and large-scale machinery collection (IV). The results indicate that, while achieving collection efficiency within 30 days, the scenario I exhibited the highest collection costs (460.9 CNY/ton) and carbon emissions (65.4 kg CO2/ton). In contrast, Scenario II, III, and IV achieved reduction in collection costs by 34.4%, 54.1%, and 60.3%, respectively, while carbon emissions reducing by 25.3%, 55.2%, and 65.9%. The transportation process would play an important role in cost reduction, wherein baled straws could lead to an average reduction in transportation costs of 66.1%. The pretreatment processing in straw transfer site is the determined factor to decline the carbon emissions, with the Scenario I and II accounting for an average of 59.2% of the total emissions. According to the analysis, further improving mechanization level in straw collection, storage, and transportation process, optimization of transportation tools and strategies, and equipment performance improvement could be a viable pathway to achieve the synergistic optimization of efficiency, cost, and carbon emissions.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Projects (No. 23ZDYF0252, 2023YFS0386), Pilot project for major Agricultural Technology Extension (No. JGXT-2022-06), Central Public-interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund (No. 1610012022008_03102), 2022 Special Project for Agricultural Technology Application and Public Service in Jiangxi Province and the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program (ASTIP) of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

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This study was funded by Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Projects (23ZDYF0252), Central Public-interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund (1610012022008_03102).

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    Weilin Luo, Tao Luo, Yangjie Ye & Nengmin Zhu

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WL: Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing draft. SX: Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Supervision. TL: Conceptualization, Writing—review & editing, Funding acquisition. RS: Conceptualization, Writing—review & editing, Formal analysis. YY: Data curation, Validation. NZ: Supervision.

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Luo, W., Xu, S., Luo, T. et al. Carbon Emissions and Economic Cost of Different Collection, Storage, and Transportation Models for Crop Straw Off-Field Utilization. Waste Biomass Valor 15, 2989–3001 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-023-02370-7

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