Food Waste Valorisation

One billion tonnes of food wasted is generated around the world every year. This book seeks to address and mitigate this urgent problem by focusing on food valorisation through conversion to various value-added products. Contributions from a wide range of international experts draw attention to valuable, realistic, and exciting opportunities for science, business, and society to provide essential and substantial environmental benefits. This timely volume comprises 18 chapters dealing with different aspects of food waste treatment and management in different parts of the world. These chapters explore the fundamentals, trends, and future opportunities for food waste composting and anaerobic digestion, as well as how food waste can be converted to single-cell protein, animal feeds, and fertiliser. This book also addresses various value-added products that can be generated. These include products such as chemicals, synthetic alternatives, nanocellulose, construction materials, and biodegradable fibres.

Contents:

• Food Waste: Global Impact and Management:

  • Impacts, Management, and Recycling of Food Waste: Global Emerging Issues (Ming Hung Wong, Diane Purchase, and Nicholas Dickinson)
  • Towards a Circular Economy: Integration of Food Waste into Urban Agriculture and Landscapingg (Xun Wen Chen, Ming Hung Wong, and Nicholas Dickinson)
  • Trends of Food Waste Treatment/Resources Recovery with the Integration of Biochemical and Thermochemical Processes (Abdulmoseen Segun Giwa, Xiaoqian Zhang, and Kaijun Wang)
  • Food Waste Management Practices in Shenzhen, China (Qiyong Xu and Chao Zhang)

• Composting and Digestion of Food Waste:

  • The Microbiology of Food Waste Composting (Hong-Giang Hoang, Chitsan Lin, Minh-Ky Nguyen, Xuan-Thanh Bui, Dai-Viet N. Vo, and Huu-Tuan Tran)
  • Food Waste Composting: Current Status, Challenges, and Opportunities (Chitsan Lin, Nicholas Kiprotich Cheruiyot, Thi-Hieu Le, Adnan Hussain, Duy-Hieu Nguyen, and Chia-Hung Kuo)
  • Pretreatment Equipment and Food Waste Preparation for Anaerobic Digestion (R A K Szmidt)

• Food and Feed from Food Waste:

  • Food Waste and Single-Cell Proteins (Yu Bon Man, Tsun Man Lee, Md Faysal Hossain, Yiu Fai Tsang, Chun Fung Wong, and Ka Lai Chow)
  • Exploiting Agro-Wastes for Sustainable Animal Production Systems and Food Security (Caven Mguvane Mnisi, Victor Mlambo, Godfrey Mhlongo, and Mveleli Marareni)

• Fertiliser and Fuel from Food Waste:

  • Vermicomposting Food and Organic Wastes (Ye Yuan and Nicholas Dickinson)
  • Treatment and Resource Recovery from Anaerobic Digestate of Food Waste (Chao Zhang, Ning Wang, and Qiyong Xu)

• Value-Added Products from Food Waste:

  • Food Wastes for Value-Added Chemicals (Miguel Ladero, Jesús Esteban, Juan Manuel Bolívar, Víctor Martín-Domínguez, Alberto García-Martín, Álvaro Lorente, Jorge García-Montalvo, and Itziar A Escanciano)
  • Opportunities for Food Waste Products as Sustainable Synthetic Alternatives (Sarah Hunter and Aiduan Borrion)
  • Nanocellulose from Food Industry Waste (Dileswar Pradhan, Kalpani Y Perera, Semiu Rasaq, Swarna Jaiswal, and Amit K Jaiswal)
  • The Potential Use of Food Waste in Biocementation Process for Eco-Efficient Construction Materials (Wilson Mwandira, Maria Mavroulidou, Michael Gunn, Hemda Garelick, and Diane Purchase)
  • Production of Biodegradable Fibres from Food Waste through Electrospinning and Their Prospective Medical Applications: An Emerging Method for Combating the COVID-19 Pandemic (Md A