LCA Of Food Waste Management

Question 1

What are the types of food waste?

Answer 1

• Avoidable (food discarded as it has been left to go past its best or not wanted anymore)
• Possibly Avoidable (food that some people eat and some do not)
• Unavoidable (inedible parts of food eg. Bones, shells)

Question 2

What are the steps to food waste management?

Answer 2

1) Precise definition of food waste and food systems

2) Identify food waste types

3) Categorise food waste types and assess the food waste hierarchy

4) Analyse with consideration for environmental, economical and social

5) Food waste is managed sustainably

Question 3

What is the food waste hierarchy?

Answer 3

• Order in which food should be reused etc.
• Reduce it first, then reuse to people, then to animals, then recycle by extracting compounds, composting, thermally treating, then dispose to landfill)