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The Importance of Quantifying Food Waste in Canada
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 Understanding food waste in Canada may offer previously unrecognized opportunities and strategies to address rising food-cost inflation, food insecurity, and negative ecological impacts and energy costs attributable to food production, distribution, and ...
Majd Abdulla +3 more
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Avoidable Household Food Waste: Diagnosing the Links between Causes and Composition
Recycling, 2021 Problems associated with the wastage of food intended for human consumption are well known and the discarding of edible but unconsumed food—avoidable food waste—is clearly undesirable.
Peter J. Shaw
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A Roadmap to Reduce U.S. Food Waste by 20 Percent [PDF]
, 2016 The magnitude of the food waste problem is difficult to comprehend. The U.S. spends $218 billion a year -- 1.3% of GDP -- growing, processing, transporting, and disposing of food that is never eaten.
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.The study presents biodegradable and recyclable mixed‐matrix membranes (MMMs), hydrogels, and cryogels using luminescent nanoscale metal‐organic frameworks (nMOFs) and biopolymers. These bio‐nMOF‐MMMs combine europium‐based nMOFs as probes for the status of the materials with the biopolymers agar and gelatine and present alternatives to conventional ...
Moritz Maxeiner +4 more
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Prevalence of household food insecurity and its association with food waste
Journal of the Egyptian Public Health AssociationBackground Household food waste significantly contributes to overall food waste. While the relationship between food security and food waste has been extensively studied at the macro level, there is a need for research focusing on the quantitative ...
Rian Diana +4 more
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Post-consumer food waste generation while dining out: A close-up view.
PLoS ONE, 2021 Food loss and food waste occur along the food supply chain, negatively impacting the environment, global economy, and food security. There is a growing global interest in tackling this issue to mitigate or handle the waste generated and limit its ...
Myra Zeineddine +4 more
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No. 13: The Growth of Food Banking in Cities of the Global South [PDF]
, 2018 As the number and size of food banks increase globally, it is critical to research how food banks fit into existing food systems and their role in reducing food insecurity and food waste.
Warshawsky, Daniel N.
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Energy from waste and the food processing industry [PDF]
, 2012 The provision of a secure, continuous energy supply is becoming an issue for all sectors of society and the foodprocessingindustry as a major energy user must address these issues.
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Laser‐Induced Graphene from Waste Almond Shells
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Almond shells, an abundant agricultural by‐product, are repurposed to create a fully bioderived almond shell/chitosan composite (ASC) degradable in soil. ASC is converted into laser‐induced graphene (LIG) by laser scribing and proposed as a substrate for transient electronics.
Yulia Steksova +9 more
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Study on Composition and Generation of Food Waste in Makanan Ringan Mas Industry
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2017 Food waste management is a major problem for most food premises in Malaysia. This study was conducted at one of the Small Medium Industries (SMIs) called Makanan Ringan Mas Industry that is located in Parit Kuari Darat, Parit Raja, Johor.
Abd Kadir Aeslina +2 more
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