Buying less and wasting less food. Changes in household food energy purchases, energy intakes and energy density between 2007 and 2012 with and without adjustment for food waste [PDF]
, 2016 Acknowledgements Financial support: This work was supported by the Scottish Government’s Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services (RESAS) Division. RESAS had no role in the design, analysis or writing of this article.
Horgan, Graham W. +2 more
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Restaurant food waste management strategy in Asia using the Restaurant Food Waste Map (RFWM) approach [PDF]
BIO Web of ConferencesBackground: Food waste is a global issue due to its serious environmental, economic, and social impacts. Objective: This research aimed to collect information regarding restaurant food waste management using the Restaurant Food Waste Map (RFWM) approach.
Fajriah Elsa +2 more
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Fuel Communications, 2021 Universities bear the important responsibility of training capable individuals and imbibing into the society plans, programs and policies that are sustainable.
Collins O. Ugwu +4 more
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Aspects of sustainability and design engineering for the production of interconnected smart food packaging [PDF]
, 2019 In the present work, the problem of food wastage and the concept of sustainability are studied. An analysis of Life Cycle Assessment as a tool and of the innovative concept of Cradle to Cradle is also carried out, together with an exhaustive comparison
Aguayo-González, Francisco +4 more
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Valuing the Multiple Impacts of Household Food Waste
Frontiers in Nutrition, 2019 The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has estimated that Canadian households waste 85 kg of food per person annually. Food waste has become an increasingly common focus for policy, regulation, interventions, and awareness-raising efforts in ...
Michael von Massow +8 more
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The Environmental Impact and Formation of Meals from the Pilot Year of a Las Vegas Convention Food Rescue Program [PDF]
, 2019 Annually, millions of tonnes of leftover edible foods are sent to landfill. Not only does this harm the environment by increasing the release of greenhouse gases which contribute to climate change, but it poses a question of ethics given that nearly 16 ...
Coughenour, Courtney +2 more
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A conceptual and empirical framework to analyze the economics of consumer food waste [PDF]
, 2019 We develop a microeconomic model to understand food waste of consumers. We capture at-home and away-from home food consumption and distinguish between food purchases and food consumption.
de Gorter, H., Drabik, D., Reynolds, C.
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Lost water and nitrogen resources due to EU consumer food waste
Environmental Research Letters, 2015 The European Parliament recently called for urgent measures to halve food waste in the EU, where consumers are responsible for a major part of total waste along the food supply chain.
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New Zealand’s Food Waste: Estimating the Tonnes, Value, Calories and Resources Wasted
Agriculture, 2016 We used macro-economic data and aggregated waste data to estimate that, in 2011, New Zealand households generated over 224,000 tonnes of food waste, and New Zealand industry generated over 103,000 tonnes of food waste.
Christian John Reynolds +2 more
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Waste prevention for sustainable resource and waste management [PDF]
, 2017 Although the 2Rs (reduce and reuse) are considered high-priority approaches, there has not been enough quantitative research on effective 2R management.
Gil-Jong Oh +24 more
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