This report provides the latest estimates by USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) on the amount and value of food … loss in the United States. These estimates are for more than 200 individual foods using ERS’s Loss-Adjusted Food … Availability data. In 2010, an estimated 31 percent or 133 billion pounds of the 430 billion pounds of food produced was not …

This study compares the thermodynamic performance of three industrial bread production chains: one that generates food … waste, one that avoids food waste generation, and one that reworks food waste to produce new bread. The chemical exergy … dough processed). However, recycling of bread waste is also exergetically efficient when the total fermented surplus is …

, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden), we examine waste policy, recycling behavior, and waste prevention … for potential correlation between the decisions of recycling different materials. …

This paper presents on the one hand, the packaging waste management in our country, and on the other hand the packaging … the packaging waste, the capitalization methods and their impact on the environment and population. Preventing waste means … a society of recycling and recovery, meaning to climb the hierarchical scale, moving from landfill to recycling and …

In Romania, in 2007 there were introduced on the market 1.28 million tonnes of packaging. Half o this amount was … managed within the “Green point” system and accounted for a 36% recycling rate. According to EU regulation, new member states … should achieve a global recycling target of minimum 55% in 2012, with some exemptions: Latvia has the most important …