Food waste to resource recovery: a way of green advocacy

Das, Alok Kumar; Verma, Manisha; Mishra, Vishal

doi:10.1007/s11356-023-27193-w

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“…Humic compounds increase soil fertility by boosting soil physiochemical characteristics and enhancing soil structure and texture [54]. Furthermore, applying compost derived from bio-transformed food waste to soils enhances soil aggregation, water-retentiveness, and porosity [55]. Humic substances present in compost favourably impact plants' physiological, metabolic, and developmental processes.…”

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“…Compared to conventional inorganic fertilizers, food waste-based compost and anaerobic digestate provide a low-cost alternative to supply nutrients in agriculture. Using food-waste-derived fertilizers reduces the expenditures of agricultural producers and their dependence on industrially-produced fertilizers [55,129].…”

Section: The Impact Of Food Waste Valorisation On Achieving Zero Hungermentioning

confidence: 99%

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From Waste to Plate: Exploring the Impact of Food Waste Valorisation on Achieving Zero Hunger

2023

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Hunger (811 million people, 2020) and food waste (931 million tonnes annually, 2020) are long-standing interconnected challenges that have plagued humankind for centuries. Food waste originates from various sources, including consumption habits and failures within the food supply chain. Given the growing concerns regarding food insecurity, malnutrition, and hunger, there is a pressing need to recover and repurpose as much food waste as possible. A growing body of knowledge identifies the valorisation (including upcycling) of food waste as one of the strategies to fight hunger by positively impacting food availability and food security. This paper evaluates the potential role of food waste valorisation, including upcycling, in reducing global hunger. A literature search was conducted to examine how converting food waste into value-added products, such as food formulations and farming inputs, can contribute to increasing food availability. The benefits of waste-to-food operations in improving food availability through producing food ingredients and products from materials that would have been wasted or discarded otherwise were discussed.

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Section: The Impact Of Food Waste Valorisation On Achieving Zero Hungermentioning

confidence: 99%

From Waste to Plate: Exploring the Impact of Food Waste Valorisation on Achieving Zero Hunger

2023

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“…In the literature, studies on different wastes have been carried out. [3][4][5][6][7] Although the main purpose of the process is the generation of electrical energy, the formation of useful products in the anode and cathode chambers makes MFC systems more environmentally and economically usable. For this, the approach of using pollutants as electron acceptors in abiotic and biotic conditions in the cathode chamber has been accepted.…”

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