Food Waste Reduction and Valorisation

Editors and contributors work at the interface between innovation, agricultural economics, engineering and chemistry, studying from various perspectives innovative waste valorisation activities for sustainability transition to a biobased economy.

Introduction.- Cutting through the challenge of improving the consumer experience of foods by enabling the preparation of sustainable meals and the reduction of food waste.- The Economic Case for the Circular Economy: From Food Waste to Resource.- Decreasing greenhouse gas emissions of meat products through food waste reduction. A framework for a sustainability assessment approach.- Fodder Legumes for Green Biorefineries: A Perspective for Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems.- Bio-waste lignin to soluble lignin-like polymers. An Italian municipal waste treatment plant as empirical case study for evaluating processes and applications for technological scale up and commercial exploitation.- Techno-economic study and environmental assessment of food waste based biorefinery.- Techno-economic evaluation of refining of food supply chain wastes for the production of chemicals and biopolymers.- Bio-based Economy: Policy Framework and Foresight Thinking.- Bringing a Sharing Economy Approach into the Food Sector: The Potential of Food Sharing for Reducing Food Waste.- Defining the Meaning of Food Waste as a Matter of Urgency.- Waste Reduction in Fresh Food Supply Chains: an Operations Research Approach.- Participatory Planning in Organic Solid Waste Management: A Backcasting Approach.- The role of social networks in the diffusion of bio-waste products: the case of mulching films derived from organic waste in Province of Foggia.- Grassroots innovations and the transition towards sustainability: Tackling the food waste challenge.