Topic food.

industrial
waste introduction
• Submitted by: kanwal sultan
• Submitted to :Dr abdul ghani.
• Roll no 01
 introduction
• Food waste or food loss
• Is a food that is wasted lost or uneaten
• The cause of food waste or loss are numerous
and occur at the stages of
• Producing
• Processing
• Retailing
• consuming
 Global food loss
• Global food loss amount to between one third
and one half of all food produced.
• Loss occur at all the stages of supply chain
• In low income countries most loss occurs
during production;
• While in developed countries much food
about 100 kg per person per year is wasted.
 Causes of food waste
• In industrialized countries food gets lost when
production exceeds demands
• Premature harvesting
• Poor storage facilities
• High quality standards
• Large quantities on display
• Inadequate market systems
 Impact on environment
• According to the food and agriculture
organization
• Food waste is responsible for 8 percent of
human made green house gases
• The FAO concludes that nearly 30 percent of
all the available agricultural land in the world
is used to produced uneaten food.s
•
 Impacts of food waste

• Affect our health

• Affect our socio economic conditions
• Affect our coastal and marine environment
• Affect our climate
• Affect our land
 Classification of waste
• According to their properties.
• Two types of waste’
• Biodegradable waste
• Can be easily degraded for example
• Paper;wood etc.
• Non biodegradable
• Cannot be degraded bottles and plastic.
 reduction
• Consumer marketing
• One way of dealing with food waste is to
reduce its creation
• Consumer can reduce spoilage by planning
their food shopping
• Avoiding potentially wasteful spontaneous
purchases
• Storing the food properly
 reduction
• Widespread educational campaigns have been
• Shown to be an effective way to reduce food
waste
• A british compaign called love food hate waste
• Has raised awareness about preventive
measure to address food waste for consumer
• Smart packaging must be done.
 Collection of food waste
• Food waste is usually managed by the same
governmental organization as other waste
collection.
• Food waste can be disposed of in ways not
applicable to other waste.
• From the end of the 19th century many
municipalities collected food waste separately
 collection
• To keep collection costs down and raise the
rate of food waste segregation some local
authorities especially in europe have
introduced alternate weekly collections of
biodegradable waste which enables a
recycling of materials
 disposal
• Food waste can be composted to produce soil
and fertilizers fed to animals or used to
produce energy or fuel.
• Many animals feed on fish meat which is
wasted by human beings.