Comparison between the Technologies for Food Waste Treatment

01/05/2017

Based on life cycle assessment (LCA), this paper compares five different methods for food waste treatment. To achieve it, the environmental performance of food waste in Shandong University as a case study is evaluated. The case study indicates that saving food is the ultimate way to reduce enviro...

Sustainability-Oriented Innovations in Food Waste Management Technology

28/12/2020

Food is essential to our survival, yet the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimates that about 820 million people were undernourished in 2018. In this context, food waste generation is a particularly salient issue. Wasting food means missing opportunities to feed th...

What is the true value of food waste? A case study of technology integration in urban food waste treatment in Suzhou City, China

01/04/2016

Food waste has the potential to be a valuable resource if disposed of correctly, meaning that treatment technology and the utilization of the recycled product based on sustainable criteria are important. There is a need to build up a comprehensive technology assessment method to find a reasonable...

Digital platforms: mapping the territory of new technologies to fight food waste

23/03/2020

The reduction of food waste is still a pending issue that governments have still not resolved. In response to this problem mobile platforms are emerging that follow food ecology and the responsible consumption of food, and self-management of their access to allow the communication between people ...

Towards More Sustainable Agro-Food Systems in Indonesia

03/03/2023

A paper published in ISEAS Perspective 2023/15. Written by Maria Monica Wihardja, Visiting Fellow at ISEAS from Yusof Ishak Institute; Bustanul Arifin, Professor of Agricultural Economics at Lampung University and Mukhammad Faisol Amir, Junior Researcher at the Center for Indonesian Policy Studies.