"The second edition of the volume presents a multi-vision of the most recent scientific and economic approaches to food waste management. Through numerous cases of study, the book illustrates the ration of food waste alised with chemical and physical methods and emerging biologics developed for treatment and recovery of products. The new edition addresses recyling trends, innovating strategies for the preavoidance of food waste, and also examine the variations of economic efforts to prevention towards this problem in different countries. " --Ingredenti Alimentari
PART I. Food Industry Wastes: Challenges and Prospects 1. Definitions, measurements and drivers of food loss and waste 2. Effectiveness and efficiency of food waste prevention policies, circular economy and food industry 3. Sources, characteristics and treatment of plant-based food wastes 4. Sources, characteristics, treatment, and analyses of animal-based food wastes
PART II. Treatment of Solid Food Waste 5. Food waste: a potential bioresource for extraction of nutraceuticals and bioactive compounds 6. Valorization of citrus wastes through sustainable extraction processes 7. Solid state fermentation of food industry wastes 8. Microbial production of butanol from food industry waste 9. Inventory of food processing side streams in EU and prospects for biorefinery development 10. Valorisation of rice straw for ethylene and jet fuel production: A techno-economic assessment
PART III. Enhanced Bioprocessing of Liquid Food Waste 11. Biopolymers produced from food wastes: a case study on biosynthesis of bacterial cellulose from fruit juices 12. Fermentation of fruit and vegetable wastes for biobased products 13. Biotechnological approach for valorization of whey for value added products
PART IV. Environmental Assessment and Rehabilitation of Wastewater 14. Accounting for the environmental impact of food wastes on water resources and climate change 15. Application of life cycle assessment to food industry wastes 16. Microbial electrochemical production of energy and value-added chemicals from agri-food wastewater
Part V. Stimulating Innovations and Drivers for Prevention of Food Wastes 17. The dry chain: Reducing postharvest losses and improving food safety in humid climates 18. Market-based tools for reduction of food waste in grocery retail 19. Mathematical modelling approach applied to food waste reduction at retailer and consumer levels in food supply chain 20. Sharing platform and innovative business models: enablers and barriers in the innovation process 21. Management of hospitality food waste and the role of consumer behavior 22. Challenges with food waste management in the food cold chains
Concluding Remarks and Future Prospects
Dr. Kosseva's expertise is in the fields of chemical/bioprocess engineering, waste management, and environmental biotechnology. Starting in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, her research and teaching skills were further developed at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Hiroshima University, Japan. At the University College Dublin, Ireland, she set up and led a new research laboratory. At the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, she established a modern teaching laboratory and taught Biochemical Engineering and Materials Engineering modules.