Platform-based sustainable business models: reducing food waste in food services

TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEM Reducing Food Loss and Waste

University - based Models for Sustainable Food Systems

In discussing the relationship between food and sustainability, three main points must be made. First, food is fundamental to sustainability. For a long time food has operated in the shadows of energy, LEED construction, and other physical aspects of sustainability. In reality, however, one cannot have sustainability without addressing food and agriculture. Second, food cannot be dealt with in ...

Food Waste to Energy: An Overview of Sustainable Approaches for Food Waste Management and Nutrient Recycling

Food wastage and its accumulation are becoming a critical problem around the globe due to continuous increase of the world population. The exponential growth in food waste is imposing serious threats to our society like environmental pollution, health risk, and scarcity of dumping land. There is an urgent need to take appropriate measures to reduce food waste burden by adopting standard managem...

Butanol production from food waste: a novel process for producing sustainable energy and reducing environmental pollution

BACKGROUND Waste is currently a major problem in the world, both in the developing and the developed countries. Efficient utilization of food waste for fuel and chemical production can positively influence both the energy and environmental sustainability. This study investigated using food waste to produce acetone, butanol, and ethanol (ABE) by Clostridium beijerinckii P260. RESULTS In contro...

Consumers in a Sustainable Food Supply Chain (COSUS): Understanding Consumer Behavior to Encourage Food Waste Reduction

Consumers are directly and indirectly responsible for a significant fraction of food waste which, for a large part, could be avoided if they were willing to accept food that is suboptimal, i.e., food that deviates in sensory characteristics (odd shape, discoloration), or that has a best-before date which is approaching or has passed, but that is still perfectly fine to eat. The choice to accept...