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

Section I: General 1. Food waste and sustainable management technologies: An introduction 2. Food waste generation and collection 3. Food waste properties and chemistry 4. Food waste prevention: source reduction; redistribution for human consumption; animal feeding

Section II: Conversion of food waste: Processes and technologies 5. Emerging technologies for treatment of food waste 6. Bioconversion technologies: Composting and bio-fertilizer production 7. Bioconversion technologies: Anaerobic digestion 8. Bioconversion technologies: Volatile fatty acids platform 9. Bioconversion technologies: Insects and worms farming 10. Bioconversion technologies: Enzymatic treatment 11. Bio-products from food waste 12. Conversion of food waste to animal feeds 13. Gasification and pyrolysis of food waste

Section III: Challenges and perspectives 14. Challenges for food waste valorization 15. Laws and regulation governing food waste management: US, EU, Asia 16. Life-cycle assessment and sustainability assessment of food waste utilization 17. Food waste to resource: an economic analysis