Analysing Global Food Waste Problem: Pinpointing the Facts and Estimating the Energy Content

dc.authorid Webb, Colin/0000-0002-4094-2524
dc.authorid Lin, Carol Sze Ki/0000-0002-8493-4307
dc.authorscopusid 55342412100
dc.authorscopusid 57204760033
dc.authorscopusid 57219219405
dc.authorwosid Webb, Colin/A-4600-2010
dc.contributor.author Melikoglu, Mehmet
dc.contributor.author Lin, Carol Sze Ki
dc.contributor.author Webb, Colin
dc.contributor.other Energy Systems Engineering
dc.date.accessioned 2024-07-05T14:28:41Z
dc.date.available 2024-07-05T14:28:41Z
dc.date.issued 2013
dc.department Atılım University en_US
dc.department-temp [Melikoglu, Mehmet; Lin, Carol Sze Ki; Webb, Colin] Univ Manchester, Safake Ctr Grain Proc Engn, Sch Chem Engn & Analyt Sci, Manchester M60 1QD, Lancs, England; [Melikoglu, Mehmet] Atilim Univ, Dept Energy Syst Engn, Ankara, Turkey; [Lin, Carol Sze Ki] City Univ Hong Kong, Sch Energy & Environm, Hong Kong, Peoples R China en_US
dc.description Webb, Colin/0000-0002-4094-2524; Lin, Carol Sze Ki/0000-0002-8493-4307 en_US
dc.description.abstract Food waste is a global problem. Each year food worth billions of dollars is wasted by the developed economies of the world. When food is wasted, the problem does not end at that point. More than 95% of the food waste ends at landfill sites, where converted into methane, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses by anaerobic digestion. The impact of food waste to climate change is catastrophic. Food waste problem tends to increase in next 25 years due to economic and population growth mainly in Asian countries. In addition, when food wastes buried at landfill sites their energy content is lost. Although food waste is a huge problem, its global size and extent has recently become a hot topic in the academic community. This paper summarises the size of the global food waste problem together with the estimation of the amount of energy lost when food wastes dumped at landfill sites. Calculations in this study also revealed that energy lost at landfill sites equals to 43% of the delivered energy used for the preparation of foods in the US, 37% of the hydroelectric power generation of Japan, and more than 100% of the current annual renewable energy demand of UK industries. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship TUBITAK International PhD Fellowship en_US
dc.description.sponsorship Dr. Mehmet Melikoglu and Dr. Carol S. K. Lin would like to express their sincere gratitude to the late Dr. Ruohang Wang, who stood beside them like a guiding star in their lives and our memories will always be cherished by all members in Prof. Colin Webb's research group. Dr. Mehmet Melikoglu would also like to gratefully acknowledge the contribution of the TUBITAK International PhD Fellowship in providing financial support to carry out much of the work presented in this paper. en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 199
dc.identifier.doi 10.2478/s13531-012-0058-5
dc.identifier.endpage 164 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2391-5439
dc.identifier.issue 2 en_US
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-84903218554
dc.identifier.startpage 157 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.2478/s13531-012-0058-5
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/425
dc.identifier.volume 3 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000218373800001
dc.institutionauthor Melikoğlu, Mehmet
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher de Gruyter Open Ltd en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Diğer en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess en_US
dc.scopus.citedbyCount 283
dc.subject Energy content en_US
dc.subject Environment en_US
dc.subject Food waste en_US
dc.subject Greenhouse Gases en_US
dc.subject Hunger en_US
dc.subject Waste management en_US
dc.title Analysing Global Food Waste Problem: Pinpointing the Facts and Estimating the Energy Content en_US
dc.type Review en_US
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