Quantitative sustainability assessment of household food waste management in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area

Tonini, Davide; Wandl, Alexander; Meister, Kozmo; Unceta, Pablo Muñoz; Taelman, Sue Ellen; Sanjuan-Delmás, David; Dewulf, Jo; Huygens, Dries

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.104854

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“…MSWI produces many harmful substances such as heavy metal, dioxin, smoke dust, and so on. If these harmful substances cannot be handled well, they will cause secondary pollution to the environment [55,56]. e flue gas needs to be purified by different types of reaction towers.…”

Section: Mswi Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Physical and Chemical Properties, Pretreatment, and Recycling of Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Fly Ash and Bottom Ash for Highway Engineering: A Literature Review

Tian

Zhang

et al. 2020

Advances in Civil Engineering

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Municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) has been widely used due to its benefits in reducing waste and recovering energy. However, MSWI fly ash and bottom ash are increasing rapidly, causing harm to human health and the environment. This paper discussed the production process, physical and chemical properties, leaching properties, pretreatment methods, and applications of fly ash and bottom ash. By summarizing the previous literature, it is found that MSWI fly ash and bottom ash have mechanical properties similar to natural aggregate. Many beneficial attempts have been made in cement concrete aggregates, ceramic raw materials, and highway engineering materials. Due to concerns about the leaching of heavy metals in fly ash, its application in highway engineering is limited. The application of bottom ash in asphalt pavement is rare because of the side effect on the performance of asphalt mixture. Considering the solidification effect of cement on heavy metals and the low cost of fly ash and bottom ash, the application in cement-stabilized macadam base has broad application prospects. This is beneficial to reduce the construction cost and promote the process of waste incineration, especially in developing countries.

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Section: Mswi Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Physical and Chemical Properties, Pretreatment, and Recycling of Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Fly Ash and Bottom Ash for Highway Engineering: A Literature Review

Tian

Zhang

et al. 2020

Advances in Civil Engineering

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“…It provides sustainable development advantages to the city, leading to progressive change toward low-carbon, resource-efficiency, resilience, and sustainable communities [52]. Studies confirm the reduction of the negative impact of inappropriate waste management landfill sites [53], reduce transportation and operational costs, and has significantly less CH4 gas emissions [54]. After a maturation process, the product being obtained using the technology presented in the article can be used as a soil amendment, bringing benefits on resource consumption and an increase in agricultural productivity [55,56].…”

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Decentralized Processing Performance of Fruit and Vegetable Waste Discarded from Retail, Using an Automated Thermophilic Composting Technology

Nenciu

Stanciulescu²,

Vlad³

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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Food waste generation is increasing at an exponential rate, affecting the environment, food security, and causing major economic issues worldwide. The main aim of the current research is to investigate a novel composting technology that is still in its early stages of development. The proposed composting technology combining thermophilic composting with the use of advanced automated processing reactors. Starting from a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the waste generated at retail-stores, the most significant difficulties associated to waste management as well as the main characteristics of the discarded waste were identified. The findings allowed to design and evaluate the real operating performance of an automated thermophilic composting prototype (working in a decentralized regime), with the goal of delivering a faster processing system, improving operational efficiency, reducing expenses, and lowering environmental impacts. The proposed operating technique showed a high capacity for pathogens and seeds removal, the waste input mass reduction of 88%, and efficiency in food processing (2235 kg of fruits and vegetables in a 14-days timeframe).

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“…Composting of food waste encounters a number of technical challenges, arising weak physical structure of food waste with weak porosity, high content of water, low carbon-to-nitrogen relation and fast hydrolysis and accumulation of organic acids during composting (Voberkova et al, 2020). Anaerobic digestion coupled with effective nutrient and energy recovery appears to be the preferred option to improve the overall sustainability of household food waste management in Amsterdam (Tonini et al, 2020). Kucbel et al (2019) reported that composts household food waste has low stabilization of organic components.…”

Section: Urban Food Waste Compostingmentioning

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Organic waste utilization and urban food waste composting strategies in China - A review

2021

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Food loss may occur in production, storage, transport, and processing, which are the stages of the value chain with the lowest returns. The current searching was done by the keywords in main indexing systems including PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus, and Institute for Scientific Information Web of Science as well as the search engine of Google Scholar. The most important points challenging areas that represent opportunities for stakeholders to look into in China are, put in place suitable economic incentives to encourage restaurants to get more involved in the formal system, create a comprehensive regulation system to benefit all relevant stakeholders by clearly defining their respective roles and responsibilities, which is necessary for the proper functioning of the whole system. In China, the most important regulations, policies and plans are regulations on safety issues of food waste treatment, detailed countermeasures on organizing, educating, supervising, and inspecting the work on food waste reduction in China, and detailed plant for household waste collection and treatment, issued by Chinese government, state council, and ministry of environmental protection. Setting national goals, awareness-raising campaigns, strict and appropriate regulation, stakeholder engagement, biorefinery and food waste recycling to animal feed are important strategies for better waste management. The most important food waste management practices in China are source separation, animal feed, rendering, composting, co-digestion, anaerobic digestion, incineration, landfill, and etc. Understanding social factors influencing household behavior is utmost importance; public education and specific communication highly contribute to improve recycling.

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Quantitative sustainability assessment of household food waste management in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area

Cited by 56 publications

References 43 publications

Physical and Chemical Properties, Pretreatment, and Recycling of Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Fly Ash and Bottom Ash for Highway Engineering: A Literature Review

Physical and Chemical Properties, Pretreatment, and Recycling of Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Fly Ash and Bottom Ash for Highway Engineering: A Literature Review

Decentralized Processing Performance of Fruit and Vegetable Waste Discarded from Retail, Using an Automated Thermophilic Composting Technology

Organic waste utilization and urban food waste composting strategies in China - A review

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