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Packaging's Role in Minimizing Food Loss and Waste Across the Supply Chain
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In this paper, the authors explored the role of packaging in minimizing food waste in the supply chain and found that the economic, social and environmental costs of food waste can be significant.Abstract:
This paper presents the results of Australian research that explored the role of packaging in minimizing food waste in the supply chain. The economic, social and environmental costs of food waste h ...read more
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Food waste matters - A systematic review of household food waste practices and their policy implications
TL;DR: In this article, the authors map the still small but expanding academic territory of consumer food waste by systematically reviewing empirical studies on food waste practices as well as distilling factors that foster and impede the generation of food waste on the household level.
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Drivers of food waste and their implications for sustainable policy development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the drivers of residential, institutional, and commercial food waste generation in developed countries, particularly in the U.S., and examined the impacts of food system modernization on food waste, including impacts related to food system industrialization, urbanization, globalization, and economic growth.
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Household food waste: Drivers and potential intervention points for design – An extensive review
TL;DR: In this paper, a review describes the consumer related material and socio-cultural drivers behind food waste found in academic and grey literature, identifying intervention points for design interventions to reduce household food waste.
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The Next Generation of Sustainable Food Packaging to Preserve Our Environment in a Circular Economy Context
Valérie Guillard,Sébastien Gaucel,Claudio Fornaciari,Hélène Angellier-Coussy,Patrice Buche,Nathalie Gontard +5 more
TL;DR: Among potential solutions, production of microbial biodegradable polymers from agro-food waste residues seems a promising route to create an innovative, more resilient, and productive waste-based food packaging economy by decoupling the food packaging industry from fossil feed stocks and permitting nutrients to return to the soil.
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Postharvest losses of fruit and vegetables during retail and in consumers’ homes: Quantifications, causes, and means of prevention
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors encourage postharvest researchers to become more engaged with logistics and food supply-chain operations, and to conduct multidisciplinary research incorporating consumer behavior studies into post-harvest research.
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Global food losses and food waste: extent, causes and prevention.
TL;DR: The Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology (SIK) as mentioned in this paper conducted two studies on global food losses, one for high/medium-income countries and one for low income countries, to serve as a basis for the international congress Save Food!, 16-17 May 2011, at the international packaging industry fair Interpack2011 in Dusseldorf, Germany.
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Food waste within food supply chains: quantification and potential for change to 2050
TL;DR: The analyses highlighted the scale of the problem, the scope for improved system efficiencies and the challenges of affecting behavioural change to reduce post-consumer waste in affluent populations.
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Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere
Anthony D. Barnosky,Elizabeth A. Hadly,Jordi Bascompte,Eric L. Berlow,James H. Brown,Mikael Fortelius,Wayne M. Getz,John Harte,Alan Hastings,Pablo A. Marquet,Neo D. Martinez,Arne Ø. Mooers,Peter D. Roopnarine,Geerat J. Vermeij,John W. Williams,Rosemary G. Gillespie,Justin Kitzes,Charles R. Marshall,Nicholas J. Matzke,David P. Mindell,Eloy Revilla,Adam B. Smith +21 more
TL;DR: Evidence that the global ecosystem as a whole is approaching a planetary-scale critical transition as a result of human influence is reviewed, highlighting the need to improve biological forecasting by detecting early warning signs of critical transitions.
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Lost food, wasted resources: global food supply chain losses and their impacts on freshwater, cropland, and fertiliser use
TL;DR: If the lowest loss and waste percentages achieved in any region in each step of the FSC could be reached globally, food supply losses could be halved and there would be enough food for approximately one billion extra people.
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Spaghetti soup: The complex world of food waste behaviours
TL;DR: The authors discusses insights into these behaviours from research funded by the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) and its partners in the UK and discusses how these insights have been used in the development of a successful public-engagement campaign, which has been influential in the recent reduction in household food waste.