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This review article deals with the alternative means of handling food wastes including the conversion of wastes from gari industry, cassava peels, shaft from processed cassava, yam, plaintain, banana agro-waste, corncobs, citrus, pastures and sugar cane, forage, organic wastes etc. into useful products for human and animal consumption in Nigeria. The biconversion of waste to useable energy is also a part of utilization of waste, as by burning solid fuel for heat, by fermenting plant matter to produce fuel, as ethanol, or by bacterial decomposition of organic waste to produce methanol. Alternative means of handling food wastes focus more on utilization rather than disposal. Thus, the possibility of producing a useful product from wastes will greatly ehnance and ensure sustainable economic development in Nigeria and the world at large.