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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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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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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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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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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.
D Vanham +4 more
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Environmental Laws in Nigeria and Occurrence of Some Geohazards: A Review [PDF]
, 2017 Nigeria as a country is blessed with an abundance of both human and natural resources. Exploitation of natural resources in Nigeria over the years with little or no regard for the environment has increased susceptibility of parts of the country to ...
C. N. Chibo, I. E. Osumgborogwu
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The quantity of food waste in the garbage stream of southern Ontario, Canada households.
PLoS ONE, 2018 There is little consensus on the amount of worldwide food waste generation because many current estimates are indirect and link back to the same limited primary datasets, with much of the data originating from fieldwork undertaken in the 1970s and 1980s.
Paul van der Werf +2 more
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Modernising the NHS: prevention and the reduction of health inequalities [PDF]
, 2000 No abstract ...
Macintyre, S.
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The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health
Annals of Global Health, 2023 Background: Plastics have conveyed great benefits to humanity and made possible some of the most significant advances of modern civilization in fields as diverse as medicine, electronics, aerospace, construction, food packaging, and sports.
Philip J. Landrigan +47 more
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