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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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Electro-kinetic technology as a low-cost method for dewatering food by-product [PDF]
, 2011 Increasing volumes of food waste, intense environmental awareness, and stringent legislation have imposed increased demands upon conventional food waste management.
Andrew Plunkett +13 more
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AgricultureThe global surge in coffee consumption has led to the generation of significant amounts of spent coffee grounds (SCG), a by-product of the brewing process.
Donald John Calvien Hutabarat +1 more
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Disentangling Drivers of Food Waste in Households: Evidence from Nigeria
Foods, 2022 Food waste is a burden on society in terms of the money wasted. There is limited information on the determinants of food waste and the amount lost to food waste by households as most previous studies were on post-harvest losses.
Calvin Oluwafemi Sunday +5 more
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Rethinking plastic waste: innovations in enzymatic breakdown of oil‐based polyesters and bioplastics
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Plastic pollution remains a critical environmental challenge, and current mechanical and chemical recycling methods are insufficient to achieve a fully circular economy. This review highlights recent breakthroughs in the enzymatic depolymerization of both oil‐derived polyesters and bioplastics, including high‐throughput protein engineering, de novo ...
Elena Rosini +2 more
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Food Waste along the Food Chain in Romania: An Impact Analysis
Foods, 2021 Food waste is a hot topic around the world due to the significant environmental challenge it poses. The study aims to assess the impact of food waste on the food chain at the national level.
Oana M. Dumitru +2 more
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Food waste materials appear efficient and low-cost adsorbents for the removal of organic and inorganic pollutants from wastewater [PDF]
, 2018 In recent studies, the adsorption capacity of several food waste materials has been assessed by performing adsorption experiments in heterogeneous operating conditions.
Canepari, S. +4 more
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Aged human bmMSCs are seeded in the scaffold. Osteoblastic induction can slightly increase cell's bone‐forming activity to produce bone‐like tissues, shown as the sporadic xylenol orange‐stained spots (the lower left image). Notably, pioglitazone plus EGCG co‐treatment dramatically increases cell's bone‐forming activity and bone‐like tissue production (
Ching‐Yun Chen +6 more
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Progress towards Sustainable Utilisation and Management of Food Wastes in the Global Economy
International Journal of Food Science, 2016 In recent years, the problem of food waste has attracted considerable interest from food producers, processors, retailers, and consumers alike. Food waste is considered not only a sustainability problem related to food security, but also an economic ...
Purabi R. Ghosh +3 more
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