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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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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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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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Combating Food Waste: Dumpster Diving as a Form of Consumer Resistance [PDF]
, 2018 This paper explores North America’s food waste issue associated with our current industrial globalized food system. Through a sociocultural lens, this essay examines the new social movement of dumpster diving among food waste activists and ‘freegans’ in ...
Vaughan, Brock J.
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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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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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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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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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