Greenhouse gas emissions from inorganic and organic fertilizer production and use: A review of emission factors and their variability

E Walling, C Vaneeckhaute - Journal of Environmental Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Fertilizers have become an essential part of our global food supply chain and are necessary
to sustain our growing population. However, fertilizers can also contribute to greenhouse …

Greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions from composting

SL Nordahl, CV Preble, TW Kirchstetter… - … science & technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Composting can divert organic waste from landfills, reduce landfill methane emissions, and
recycle nutrients back to soils. However, the composting process is also a source of …

Environmental impacts of food waste management technologies: A critical review of life cycle assessment (LCA) studies

F Batool, TA Kurniawan, A Mohyuddin… - Trends in Food Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Food waste is a serious global problem. Therefore, it is essential to reduce food waste and
adopt recycling strategies to minimize its environmental impacts. However, conventional …

Circularity in Europe strengthens the sustainability of the global food system

HHE Van Zanten, W Simon, B Van Selm, J Wacker… - Nature Food, 2023 - nature.com
Redesigning the European food system on the basis of circularity principles could bring
environmental benefits for Europe and the world. Here we deploy a biophysical optimization …

A review of wastewater irrigation: Environmental implications

A Singh - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2021 - Elsevier
The UN'SDG6 thrusts the reuse of treated wastewater to ensure the availability of water for
all. The use of treated wastewater for crop irrigation is a feasible option as the agriculture …

Composting of food wastes: Status and challenges

A Cerda, A Artola, X Font, R Barrena, T Gea… - Bioresource …, 2018 - Elsevier
This review analyses the main challenges of the process of food waste composting and
examines the crucial aspects related to the quality of the produced compost. Although recent …

[HTML][HTML] Black Soldier Fly biowaste treatment–Assessment of global warming potential

A Mertenat, S Diener, C Zurbrügg - Waste management, 2019 - Elsevier
Cities of low and middle-income countries face severe challenges in managing the
increasing amount of waste produced, especially the organic fraction. Black Soldier Fly …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental impacts of food waste: Learnings and challenges from a case study on UK

D Tonini, PF Albizzati, TF Astrup - Waste Management, 2018 - Elsevier
Food waste, particularly when avoidable, incurs loss of resources and considerable
environmental impacts due to the multiple processes involved in the life cycle. This study …

[HTML][HTML] Metrics for optimising the multi-dimensional value of resources recovered from waste in a circular economy: A critical review

E Iacovidou, CA Velis, P Purnell, O Zwirner… - Journal of cleaner …, 2017 - Elsevier
Established assessment methods focusing on resource recovery from waste within a circular
economy context consider few or even a single domain/s of value, ie environmental …

Pretreatment of food waste for methane and hydrogen recovery: a review

OP Karthikeyan, E Trably, S Mehariya, N Bernet… - Bioresource …, 2018 - Elsevier
Food waste (FW) management by biological process is more attractive and eco-friendly
approach than thermo-chemical conversion or landfilling. However, FW composition and …