principal objective of this project was to identify and analyze why food waste occurs at Fort Jackson, as well as recommend alternative ways to minimize the waste generated at this installation. incineration, and landfilling] were analyzed primarily at Fort Jackson, with alternative disposal options investigated at both Fort Jackson and Parris Island. The following research questions acted as a...

The environmental crisis and the need to find renewable fuel alternatives have made production of biofuels an important priority. At the same time, the increasing production of food waste is an important environmental issue. For this reason, production of ethanol from food waste is an interesting approach. Volumes of food waste are reduced and ethanol production does not compete with food produ...

Food waste, a by-product of various industrial, agricultural, household and other food sector activities, is rising continuously due to increase in such activities. Various studies have indicated that different kind of food wastes obtained from fruits, vegetables, cereal and other food processing industries can be used as potential source of bioactive compounds and nutraceuticals which has sign...

Working against food waste is key to reduce hunger and to improve food sustainability. One third of the edible parts of the foods produced for human consumption are wasted, what represents 1.300 millions of tonnes per year worldwide. From those, 11 millions of tones come from food services, such as hotels, restaurants and caterings, sector in Europe. At the same time, the current economic crisi...

Food losses and waste are currently at the heart of academic debates, civil society initiatives, and political agendas. This paper investigates food waste in school catering services focusing on six schools located in the municipality of Verona (Italy). It aims to quantify food waste, as a measure of food catering inefficiency, to identify the main causes, and to suggest a set of prevention and...

Hong Kong is also paying an environmental price. Food waste, accounting for about 40% of municipal solid waste, accelerates the depletion of the limited landfill space. Two of the three strategic landfills in Hong Kong have already reached capacity respectively in 2014 and 2016, while the remaining one is expected to be exhausted in 2018. The greenhouse gases generated by food waste are imposin...

This study was conducted to provide a detailed description of waste generation and characteristics from a traditional market in Hue city, located in central Vietnam. The authors conducted a waste generation survey and a waste composition survey for 309 stalls/vendors in five markets by 17 business categories for 10 consecutive days. The waste generation rates by stall/vendor and by floor area w...

Anaerobic digestion can be used to degrade food waste and recover energy. Methane is a biogas that can be efficiently converted in electricity. Organic loading rate, temperature, time, pH, carbon to nitrogen ratio are important factors to be operated in the bioreactors and still are challenges in this process to increase biogas production. It has been reviewed the single phase and two-stage bio...

During the industrial processing of agricultural or animal products, large amounts waste are produced. These wastes, generated in throughout seasons year, can be considered most abundant renewable resources on earth. Due to availability and richness components these raw materials, there is a great interest their reuse, both from an economical environmental point view. This based fact that high ...

Reducing food losses and waste is considered to be one of the most promising measures to improve food security in the coming decades. Food losses also affect our use of resources, such as freshwater, cropland, and fertilisers. In this paper we estimate the global food supply losses due to lost and wasted food crops, and the resources used to produce them. We also quantify the potential food sup...