Retail food waste in NZ was estimated at 13 kg/capita/year for all food waste and diverted product (i.e. all food not sold or utilised at a retail level), which included 5 kg/capita/year designated as food waste (i.e. food directed to landfill, protein reprocessing and compost), ...
Importantly, given the use of the RPCs in the fresh food sector, the study also considered the prevented food waste due to advantages in both the protection of produce and faster cooling times throughout the supply chain. One CHEP NZ RPC, compared to a single-use cardboard alternative ...
Food waste presents a resource management challenge for New Zealand communities, businesses and governance institutions. The energy, labour, soil, water and myriad other inputs used to grow, manufacture, distribute and prepare food are lost with each kilogram that is thrown away. Numerous technologies...
Key findings suggest more needs to be done to tackle food waste along the whole supply chain, access business and marketing innovators to provide solutions for food waste and improve the entire food donation system. United States Waste & Recycling News
However, these types of previously “alternative” sustainable food activities now supported by urban food policies in the Global North have been critiqued on the part that they “often normalize and promote dominant food practices, creating hegemonic “white food spaces” (Alkon and McCullen2011; ...
However, in Pb contaminated areas, relatively high concentrations of Pb were found in food samples [72,75]. In 11 mining-impacted areas in Hunan province in China, median Pb concentrations ranged from 0.05 mg/kg to 0.78 mg/kg [75]. In an e-waste recycling area in southeast China, the ...
A Pellerito,R Dounz-Weigt,M Micali 摘要: The sharing food trend is achieving again popularity at present in industrialised countries. The main reason seems correlated with food overproduction. 'Food sharing' communities have a basic aim: to avoid the waste of food by gifting food commodities to...
For example, the study site is a major sweet potato (hui Cilembu cultivar) cultivation area where the leaves are regarded as postharvest waste. Considering that sweet potato leaves is a good source of calcium (157 mg/100 g, providing 16% of the RDA for Ca), it is recommended for more ...
Globally food waste generated per person is 160–295 kg/year or 1.2–2 billion tonnes per year in total (Fox and Fimeche, 2013). For instance, New Zealand generated approximately 330,000 tonnes per year of food waste in 2008 (Statistics NZ, 2008, Ministry for the Environment, 2010) ...
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