A Survey on Food Waste Management System

Knowledge, attitudes and practices on household food waste: Bases for formulation of a recycling system

This study assessed the knowledge, attitudes and practices on food waste of selected households in the northern province of the Philippines. The results of the assessment were used as bases for formulation of a recycling system. A total of one hundred rural households were selected using stratified equal allocation sampling technique. Data were collected through the use of researcher-made quest...

IoT-Based Smart Garbage System for Efficient Food Waste Management

Owing to a paradigm shift toward Internet of Things (IoT), researches into IoT services have been conducted in a wide range of fields. As a major application field of IoT, waste management has become one such issue. The absence of efficient waste management has caused serious environmental problems and cost issues. Therefore, in this paper, an IoT-based smart garbage system (SGS) is proposed to...

A Review of Empirical Applications on Food Waste Prevention&Management

Food waste has a significant detrimental economic, environmental and social impact. Recent efforts in HCI research have examined ways of influencing surplus food waste management. In this paper, we conduct a research survey to investigate and compare the effectiveness of existing approaches in food waste management throughout its lifecycle from agricultural production, post-harvest handling and...

TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEM Reducing Food Loss and Waste

Food Futures – Reflections on the Engineering Theme Waste Management

Based on understanding that food poses one of the key challenges for future development in the coming decades, integrated research on the complex topic of food systems is recognized to be essential. Activities and concepts aiming to reduction of waste and losses of food are considered to be most promising options among possible measures to improve food security. Occurrence of losses and waste v...