Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Sustainable Food Waste Management: Resource Recovery and Treatment

Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Sustainable Food Waste Management: Resource Recovery and Treatment covers the latest methods of food waste management and resource recovery from a sustainability perspective and is suitable for universities, municipalities, and companies working in the field. This book provides a comprehensive account of food waste chemistry, the latest techniques for food waste treatment and recycling, sustainability assessment (social, economic, environmental), and challenges in food waste management. The book explores recycling to value-added products using sustainable concepts and methodologies, and is useful as a course or reference book for biochemical engineering, environmental sustainability, and waste management.

Covers recycling to value-added products using sustainable concepts and methodologiesProvides an exhaustive description of general treatment options and their evaluation guidelines in terms of cost, energy consumption, and waste generation, enabling readers to understand the principles behind various recovery and treatment schemes Describes existing and emerging food waste recycling technologies, products obtained, and process efficiencies Offers a thorough account of critical factors and challenges in food waste valorization, such as handling of new emerging contaminants, end-product purity, and life-cycle assessment

1. Food waste and sustainable management technologies: An introduction 2. Food waste properties and chemistry 3. Food waste generation and collection 4. Closing the food chain loop through waste prevention and recovery 5. Bioconversion technologies: Food Waste Composting: Challenges and Possible Approaches 6. Bioconversion technologies: Anaerobic digestion of food waste 7. Microbial conversion of food waste: volatile fatty acids platform 8. Bioconversion technologies: Insect and worm farming 9. Bioconversion Technologies: Hydrolytic Enzyme Treatment of Food Waste 10. Bio-products from food waste 11. Conversion of food waste to animal feeds 12. Gasification and pyrolysis of food waste 13. Emerging technologies for treatment of food waste 14. Food waste policy 15. Life-cycle assessment and sustainability assessment of food waste utilization