Essays on Food Waste

Australians, Americans, and British people produce more food than is needed by each country, yet strategies to manage food waste like upcycling residues and following systems that rely on circular economies and waste hierarchies, are not being utilised. The justifications for food waste vary, and...

The food taboo is a prohibition against consuming certain foods. The word “taboo” is Greek word means forbidden or abstinence, which has quasi-magical or religious overtone. It was introduced in the anthropological term literature in the 2nd half of the 19th century. Within the field...

Organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) can be defined differently by regionally and nationally. For the United States of America, OFMSW is defined as a mixture of food, garden waste and paper. While for the European Union the OFMSW is known as a mixture...

Food waste is a massive and financially pulling issue for the world, costing us around $680 billion a year . In France this problem was very prominent as the country was producing around 88 billion tonnes per year. With information from a new report done...

Each year over 9 million people die of starvation. That’s more than the deaths of Aids and Malaria combined. These numbers may startle you and make you think what can I do to make a change, You can do a lot as a matter of...