Environmental impacts of food waste management technologies: A critical review of life cycle assessment (LCA) studies

F Batool, TA Kurniawan, A Mohyuddin… - Trends in Food Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Food waste is a serious global problem. Therefore, it is essential to reduce food waste and
adopt recycling strategies to minimize its environmental impacts. However, conventional …

Sustainable management of food waste; pre-treatment strategies, techno-economic assessment, bibliometric analysis, and potential utilizations: A systematic review

AM Elgarahy, MG Eloffy, A Alengebawy… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Food waste (FW) contains many nutritional components such as proteins, lipids, fats,
polysaccharides, carbohydrates, and metal ions, which can be reused in some processes to …

An overview of the interactions between food production and climate change

W Leal Filho, AFF Setti, UM Azeiteiro… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper provides an overview of how food production influences climate change and also
illustrates the impact of climate change on food production. To perform such an overview …

Life cycle assessment of food waste to energy and resources: Centralized and decentralized anaerobic digestion with different downstream biogas utilization

H Tian, X Wang, EY Lim, JTE Lee, AWL Ee… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion (AD) has been identified as an efficient food waste disposal technology
by many researchers. However, a holistic environmental investigation of different AD …

[HTML][HTML] A critical review on food waste management for the production of materials and biofuel

A Lahiri, S Daniel, R Kanthapazham, R Vanaraj… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Increasing demand for fuels and chemicals, exacerbated by factors such as overpopulation,
the threat of global warming, and the scarcity of fossil resources, puts a strain on our …

Advances in the food packaging production from agri-food waste and by-products: market trends for a sustainable development

NL Cristofoli, AR Lima, RDN Tchonkouang… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Agricultural waste has been a prominent environmental concern due to its significant
negative impact on the environment when it is incinerated, disposed of in landfills, or …

Understanding acidogenesis towards green hydrogen and volatile fatty acid production–critical analysis and circular economy perspective

S Dahiya, Y Lingam, SV Mohan - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Acidogenic fermentation of biomass/waste/wastewater for the generation of short-chain fatty
acids (VFAs) is gaining interest associated with the production of bioenergy (biohydrogen …

A comprehensive review on current status and future perspectives of microbial volatile fatty acids production as platform chemicals

VK Varghese, BJ Poddar, MP Shah, HJ Purohit… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Volatile fatty acids (VFA), the secondary metabolite of microbial fermentation, are used in a
wide range of industries for production of commercially valuable chemicals. In this review …

Life cycle assessment of food waste anaerobic digestion with hydrothermal and ionizing radiation pretreatment

X Fei, W Jia, T Chen, Y Ling - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Extensive research has been conducted on the life cycle assessment of anaerobic digestion
of food waste. However, few studies have evaluated the environmental impact of anaerobic …

[HTML][HTML] Life cycle analysis of fermentative production of succinic acid from bread waste

S Gadkari, D Kumar, Z Qin, CSK Lin, V Kumar - Waste Management, 2021 - Elsevier
According to the US Department of Energy, succinic acid (SA) is a top platform chemical that
can be produced from biomass. Bread waste, which has high starch content, is the second …