Twenty-five comparative cycle assessments (LCAs) addressing food waste treatment were
reviewed, including the treatment alternatives landfill, thermal treatment, compost (small and …

A review of existing life cycle assessments on food waste management was made with two
main aims. Firstly, to make an overview of the assessments of the global warming potential …

Afforestation is an important greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation strategy but the efficacy of
commercial forestry is disputed. Here, we calculate the potential GHG mitigation of a UK …

The true cost of what the global food industry throws away. With shortages, volatile prices
and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problem—or thinks it does …

A key challenge for the waste management sector is to maximise resource efficiency whilst
simultaneously reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. For stakeholders to better …

Particularly in the UK, there is potential for use of large-scale anaerobic digestion (AD)
plants to treat food waste, possibly along with other organic wastes, to produce biogas. This …

Abstract The European Commission has recently revised the EU legislation on fertilisers,
expanding its scope to secondary-raw-material-based fertilising products, and resulting in …

Uncertainty analysis in LCA studies has been subject to major progress over the last years.
In the context of waste management, various methods have been implemented but a …

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions related to composting of organic waste and the use of
compost were assessed from a waste management perspective. The GHG accounting for …

Environmental impacts from incineration, decentralised composting and centralised
anaerobic digestion of solid organic household waste are compared using the EASEWASTE …