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 The recovery of food from Food Industry waste will become more and more attractive as food prices increase and per capita availability decreases. In general technology is already available to recover value but the viability limits what is done. This is an interesting approach to improve viability by addressing the logistics of [...] I have written on Food Waste now and then as it's clearly a part of the food supply system where the world can grow food availability using existing technology. Now a UNEP/FAO lead campaign, supported by initiatives such as WRAP, has been launched. click image to visit the site Think-Eat-Save and [...] When the Institute of Mechanical Engineers publishes a report on solving the expected world food shortage by reducing loss, you begin to realise this is a very widely recognized problem or opportunity. I already published a paper on this titled Waste in the food value chain: Issues and opportunities in sub-Saharan Africa in 2011, which [...] The ACP-EU has recently held on of its rural development briefing on Food Waste. click the image to visit the website Around one third of all food is wasted which is already frightening enough but with the new concern on climate change it becomes even worse. The food wasted produces emissions in production [...] Its my feeling that you need to be! both from a point of view of “saving the world” and from the point of view of satisfying your customers moral desires. The introduction of the lifecycle concept in this argument is very important because a partial analysis can miss larger hidden differences if all impacts are [...] The work in the United Kindom on waste in the food system has lead to an intriguing, data rich report which is available on the WRAP website.
from: WRAP (click image for full story online)
Taking the information of how much food is wasted from this report, with the post on excessively nutritious [...] I copy this post from Ecowordly, because I think all food processing industries should be investigating the potential of anaerobic digestion to convert waste into biogas to supplement their energy supply. It makes sense in lots of ways! SAB Miller, South African grown, second largest brewer in the world has introduced anaerobic digestion to [...] Here is your opportunity to tell me what you would like me to be publishing here! Please email me here – dave@digivu.co.za or simply make a comment at the end of the post. Everyone who makes an input can supply me with information, which will be posted on www.digivu.co.za – what about using this [...] I intend to do a series of posts on fruit and vegetable drying given that this is one of the simplest, safest and cheapest processing technologies. However, as I am always promoting that we need to start at the market side. We also need to define the sector we are working in. But first a [...] Going back a bit to the environmental issues in food processing. Walker crisps in the UK was the first company to do detail work on one of its products.
from: Walkers Crisps (click image for full story online)
The illustration indicates that the carbon footprint is calculated up to the point where [...] |
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