Food waste as a valuable resource for the production of chemicals, materials and fuels. Current situation and global perspective

dc.contributor.author	Lin, CSK	en
dc.contributor.author	Pfaltzgraff, LA	en
dc.contributor.author	Herrero-Davila, L	en
dc.contributor.author	Mubofu, EB	en
dc.contributor.author	Abderrahim, S	en
dc.contributor.author	Clark, JH	en
dc.contributor.author	Koutinas, AA	en
dc.contributor.author	Kopsahelis, N	en
dc.contributor.author	Stamatelatou, K	en
dc.contributor.author	Dickson, F	en
dc.contributor.author	Thankappan, S	en
dc.contributor.author	Mohamed, Z	en
dc.contributor.author	Brocklesby, R	en
dc.contributor.author	Luque, R	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-06-06T06:52:32Z
dc.date.available	2014-06-06T06:52:32Z
dc.date.issued	2013	en
dc.identifier.issn	17545692	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c2ee23440h	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://62.217.125.90/xmlui/handle/123456789/6064
dc.subject.other	Case-studies	en
dc.subject.other	Chemical component	en
dc.subject.other	Citrus peel	en
dc.subject.other	Current situation	en
dc.subject.other	Drives industry	en
dc.subject.other	Energy recovery	en
dc.subject.other	Food waste	en
dc.subject.other	Fossil resources	en
dc.subject.other	Global perspective	en
dc.subject.other	Innovative strategies	en
dc.subject.other	Overall efficiency	en
dc.subject.other	Resource system	en
dc.subject.other	Sustainable raw materials	en
dc.subject.other	Tanzania	en
dc.subject.other	Valorisation	en
dc.subject.other	Waste cooking oil	en
dc.subject.other	Chemical contamination	en
dc.subject.other	Chemical industry	en
dc.subject.other	Food supply	en
dc.subject.other	Fuels	en
dc.subject.other	Global warming	en
dc.subject.other	Incineration	en
dc.subject.other	Indicators (chemical)	en
dc.subject.other	Oils and fats	en
dc.subject.other	Supply chains	en
dc.subject.other	Waste incineration	en
dc.subject.other	chemical industry	en
dc.subject.other	demand-side management	en
dc.subject.other	food supply	en
dc.subject.other	global perspective	en
dc.subject.other	global warming	en
dc.subject.other	innovation	en
dc.subject.other	recycling	en
dc.subject.other	sustainable development	en
dc.subject.other	Anacardium occidentale	en
dc.subject.other	Citrus	en
dc.title	Food waste as a valuable resource for the production of chemicals, materials and fuels. Current situation and global perspective	en
heal.type	other	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1039/c2ee23440h	en
heal.publicationDate	2013	en
heal.abstract	Increasing demand for fuels and chemicals, driven by factors including over-population, the threat of global warming and the scarcity of fossil resources, strains our resource system and necessitates the development of sustainable and innovative strategies for the chemical industry. Our society is currently experiencing constraints imposed by our resource system, which drives industry to increase its overall efficiency by improving existing processes or finding new uses for waste. Food supply chain waste emerged as a resource with a significant potential to be employed as a raw material for the production of fuels and chemicals given the abundant volumes globally generated, its contained diversity of functionalised chemical components and the opportunity to be utilised for higher value applications. The present manuscript is aimed to provide a general overview of the current and most innovative uses of food supply chain waste, providing a range of worldwide case-studies from around the globe. These studies will focus on examples illustrating the use of citrus peel, waste cooking oil and cashew shell nut liquid in countries such as China, the UK, Tanzania, Spain, Greece or Morocco. This work emphasises 2nd generation food waste valorisation and re-use strategies for the production of higher value and marketable products rather than conventional food waste processing (incineration for energy recovery, feed or composting) while highlighting issues linked to the use of food waste as a sustainable raw material. The influence of food regulations on food supply chain waste valorisation will also be addressed as well as our society's behavior towards food supply chain waste. ""There was no ways of dealing with it that have not been known for thousands of years. These ways are essentially four: dumping it, burning it, converting it into something that can be used again, and minimizing the volume of material goods-future garbage-that is produced in the first place."" William Rathje on waste (1945-2012)-Director of the Tucson Garbage project. This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2013.	en
heal.journalName	Energy and Environmental Science	en
dc.identifier.issue	2	en
dc.identifier.volume	6	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1039/c2ee23440h	en
dc.identifier.spage	426	en
dc.identifier.epage	464	en