Sustainable Strategies for Food Waste Utilization
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Food".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 1588
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent global occurrences, including the COVID-19 pandemic, population growth, war and climate change, have challenged the global food security landscape, with more severe impacts on developing countries. With these incidents, the United Nations has estimated that the number of people that suffer from hunger globally will surpass 840 million by 2030. Despite this challenge, however, nutrient-dense foods still end up in landfills as food waste, or are used inefficiently in low-value outlets, resulting not only in resource, environmental or economic consequences but also challenging our moral responsibility as humans. Increasing outputs from existing resources is one of the viable strategies that could be employed to prevent these food wastes and alleviate global food insecurity. This Special Issue intends to capture scientific research that focuses on innovative ways to sustainably use these secondary streams that are generated at all levels of the food value chain.
This Special Issue will cover the whole spectrum of the value pyramid, from the low-value to the high-value utilization of food waste. It will also cover the whole hierarchy of solutions that could be employed to sustainably address food loss and waste, including strategies to reduce waste from the source, recover value from food waste, and recycle food waste.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome.
Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Plant- and animal-derived food waste;
- Recovery and recycling of food waste;
- Value-added meat secondary streams;
- Nutrient extraction from food waste (proteins, fatty acids, etc.);
- Extraction of bioactive components of food waste;
- Food waste reduction strategies;
- Food waste use in bioplastics and polymers applications;
- Food waste use in biofuels;
- Food waste use in energy and heat generation;
- Food waste use in pharmaceutical applications;
- Food waste use in food and feed;
- Process efficiency in food waste utilization.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Philip Soladoye
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- circular economy
- food waste utilization
- environmental sustainability
- greenhouse gas emission
- food security
- food waste recycling
- food waste reduction
