Of growing amount of food waste, the integrated food waste and waste water treatment was regarded as one of the efficient modeling method. However, the load of food waste to the conventional waste treatment process might lead to the high concentration of total nitrogen (T-N) impact on the effluent water quality. The objective of this study is to establish two machine learning models-artificial ...

Background: Foodservice is an important issue in hospital settings, and patients’ levels of satisfaction are often indicated by consumption and plate waste. Objective: The current study compared patient satisfaction in hospital areas and other factors and determined the relationship between patient satisfaction and plate waste. Methods:</str...

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Food waste is the origin of major social and environmental issues. In industrial societies, domestic households are biggest contributors to this problem. But why do people food although they buy value it? Answering question mandatory design effective interventions against waste. So far, however, many have not been based on theoretical knowledge. Integrating literature ambivalence research, we p...

A 2014 report by the Economic Research Service of the USDA revealed that 31% or 133 billion pounds – of the available food supply at the retail and consumer levels went uneaten by Americans in 2010. Such a vast amount of waste is particularly difficult to accept given that roughly one in six Americans experience food insecurity, and that inadequate nutrition is leading to a serious increase in ...

The hydrolysis rate coefficients of sorted municipal waste were evaluated from the biochemical methane potential tests using non-linear regression. A distributed mathematical model of anaerobic digestion of rich (food) and lean (non-food) solid wastes with greatly different rates of polymer hydrolysis/acidogenesis was developed to describe the balance between the rates of hydrolysis/acidogenesi...

Approximately, one-third to half of all food produced globally is wasted. In developed countries, roughly up to half of this food waste comes from consumers. In response to this, the UN has set goals to raise consumer awareness and reduce food waste by 50% before 2030. Our objective is to evaluate how emerging technologies could improve awareness in households. Inspired by future sensing possib...

This concept paper summarizes key “hotspots” for waste generation along the food supply chain and identifies a range of existing solutions/measures that can help producers, retailers and consumers reduce the amount of food that is wasted. The majority of food waste of 71–92 kg/head/year in Western Europe was found to originate from private households (61%), followed by restaurants and canteens ...

Composting of food waste generated from the University of Georgia’s cafeterias was evaluated using an agitated aerated composting system. The goal of the project was to determine if all of the University’s food waste could be recycled using six Earth Tubs. Secondary evaluations investigated the amount of leachate produced, odor generated, speed of composting, quality of compost, cost savings to...