This is less than one-quarter of the gap between food supplies and the amount of food thought to be eaten in the UK.5. Food wastage was significantly influenced by the composition of the family, with adults wasting more in absolute terms than children, and larger households wasting less per...
Household waste in the UK is becoming an increasing problem, with people throwing out over 1 072 kg of waste per household per year, of which 403 kg was recycled.In total, more than 27 million tons of waste is thrown into landfills across the UK each year. In Germany, which has a pop...
Quality and food waste depended on time and storage conditions: For short storage times, within three days, the best quality combined with the lowest environmental footprint was for unbagged broccoli at 7 °C and no household food waste. However, this scenario had the highest food waste level...
In many supermarkets nowadays food items are packagedtwice with plastic and cardboard. Too much packaging is doing serious damage to the environment. The UK for example is running out of it for carrying this unnecessary waste. If such packaging is burnt it gives off greenhouse gaseswhich go on...
Household waste is a serious environmental problem in Indonesia, especially in urban areas. Since 2010, biogas production from food waste has been introduced to reduce waste and provided an alternative to liquid petroleum gas (LPG) as cooking fuel in a pilot project in Bandung. Although the produ...
The sustainability of food waste is one of the most important contemporary economic, social, and environmental issues that encompasses useful academic, practical, and policymaking implications. Under the domain of sustainability, food waste is a serious global challenge with a growing public, political,...
household food waste; avoidable food waste; food waste composition; determinants of food waste; Germany1. Introduction According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), about 1.3 billion tons of food, equivalent to one-third of worldwide food production, is lost or wasted. Along the ...
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and WRAP UK have come together to tackle single-use packaging. The aim of the research is to have materials that are reusable, recyclable, or compostable as well as increase collections of waste, drive demand for secondary markets of recycled materials, and engage ...
The Future of Biodegradable Waste Management in the UK The WRATE LCA model was used to compare the environmental impacts of incineration and MBT to landfilling residual household waste, using The London Borough of Barnet as a case study. Incineration performed best, followed by MBT processes... ...
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