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This book focuses on the search for possibilities of valuable food waste transformation directly to food, by introducing the'Waste-to-Food Concept'. It goes beyond conventional technologies of food waste transformation into compost and organic fertilisers (downgrading the value of food waste biomass). It focuses on novel processing technologies and bio-transformation methods to food grade biomass. Food waste biomass of non-food grade quality can be used for high-value components extraction and as a carbon and nitrogen source for specific algae and insect cultivation. The discussed methods are complex and contradictive with multiple legal, socio-economic, environmental and nutritional issues. Therefore, this book thoroughly focuses on analysing these issues, and searching for viable ways to proceed, such as eco-design and application of Artificial Intelligence algorithms as solutions for the complex Waste-to-Food system.

This book focuses on the crucial sustainability challenge of reducing food waste at the level of consumer-society. Providing an in-depth, research-based overview of the multifaceted problem, it considers environmental, economic, social and ethical factors. Perspectives included in the book address households, consumers, and organizations, and their role in reducing food waste. Rather than focusing upon the reasons for food waste itself, the chapters develop research-based solutions for the problem, providing a much-needed solution-orientated approach that takes multiple perspectives into account.Chapters 1, 2, 12 and 16 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

This comprehensive handbook represents a definitive state of the current art and science of food waste from multiple perspectives.The issue of food waste has emerged in recent years as a major global problem. Recent research has enabled greater understanding and measurement of loss and waste throughout food supply chains, shedding light on contributing factors and practical solutions. This book includes perspectives and disciplines ranging from agriculture, food science, industrial ecology, history, economics, consumer behaviour, geography, theology, planning, sociology, and environmental policy among others. The Routledge Handbook of Food Waste addresses new and ongoing debates around systemic causes and solutions, including behaviour change, social innovation, new technologies, spirituality, redistribution, animal feed, and activism. The chapters describe and evaluate country case studies, waste management, treatment, prevention, and reduction approaches, and compares research methodologies for better understanding food wastage.This book is essential reading for the growing number of food waste scholars, practitioners, and policy makers interested in researching, theorising, debating, and solving the multifaceted phenomenon of food waste.

This book adds a new dimension to the sustainability assessment of food waste reduction and valorisation: policy analysis. Featuring a transdisciplinary analysis by key experts in the field, it identifies the drivers of change in food-waste reduction and valorisation technologies by looking, for example, at the regulatory framework and at policy actions undertaken by local and global actors.The book explores the development of regulations and policies for food-waste prevention, management, and valorisation at a global as well as European Union level. It also discusses the notion of food waste in legal terms and investigates the effects of the lack of a standard, universal definition of food waste on the efficient use of by-products, promising processes and products for technological and commercial exploitation.Utilising mathematical mapping methods to assess food consumption impacts and providing supply chain models that allow the testing of consumption scenarios, thebook goes on to discuss a series of emerging technologies (tested at lab scale and/ or pilot scale) and opportunities for the valorisation of food waste.

Vous passeriez-vous de votre frigo? Micro-ondes ou chauffe-biberon, passe encore, tentons éventuellement de nous passer de la télé voire de la poubelle... Mais le frigo?! Nous sommes 99,6% à posséder cette armoire à glace. Autant dire qu'elle règne en maître dans nos cuisines... Et pourtant, cette reine du stockage, que l'on remplit comme un placard, n'est pas indétrônable. D'autant qu'une véritable révolution alimentaire est en marche! En effet, aujourd'hui nous savons qu'il est souhaitable pour notre santé et celle de la planète d'acheter local et en plus petites quantités, de consommer moins de viande, moins de poisson, moins de produits laitiers... Or, si l'on s'inscrit dans cette démarche, combien d'aliments peuvent en toute sécurité se passer du frigo? Beaucoup, en réalité! Vous trouverez dans cet ouvrage des dizaines de conseils, d'astuces et de recettes tirés de traditions oubliées ou d'autres cultures, pour bénéficier au mieux des nutriments et vitamines contenus dans les aliments! À défaut de vous passer complètement du frigo, vous pourrez opter pour une version “mini”, l'utiliser à meilleur escient et (re)découvrir la vraie saveur de vos denrées! Avertissement : attention, la lecture de ses ouvrages rend optimiste et donne envie de se mettre en action immédiatement. Guidée avant tout par un souci de bien-être et une volonté farouche de préserver les ressources de la planète, Marie Cochard, journaliste et auteure du livre Les épluchures, tout ce que vous pouvez en faire, remet ici le couvert de la lutte contre le gaspillage alimentaire. Elle nous sert avec humour ses incroyables découvertes en matière de conservation naturelle, prouvant ainsi que débrancher son réfrigérateur est loin d'être une idée complètement givrée!