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This book discusses the sustainable management and conversion of food waste into various resources through biological resource recovery techniques. An overview is given of the present challenges facing food waste management, why food waste reduction in general is a pressing issue, and the current treatment methods for food waste to minimize adverse environmental and human health impacts. The majority of the chapters then discuss sustainable methods for converting food waste into resources such as fermentation, vermicomposting, nutrient recycling, pyrolysis, biochar, and microbial decomposition, with the goal of sustainably producing biogas, fertilizer, animal feed, and other resources. The primary audience of the book is researchers working in the field of waste management. It will also interest NGOs, industrial engineers, and policymakers looking for methods to prevent and manage food waste.
List of contents
1 Food-waste.- 2 Generation of Food Waste.- 3 Evaluating Food Waste.- 4 Treatment Methods for Food Waste.- 5 Recent Trends in Composting of Food Waste.- 6 Reimagining Food Waste.- 7 Various Composting Techniques for Food Waste Management.- 8 Innovative Methods for Transforming Food Waste into Resourceful By-products.- 9 Food Waste and Fermentation.- 10 Recent Developments in Anaerobic Digestion of Food Waste Techniques.- 11 Microbial Decomposition of Food Waste into Fertilizers.- 12 Organic Fertilizers from Food Waste.- 13 Food Waste and Its Biotechnological Application.- 14 Technologies Associated with Biogas Generation and Treatment.- 15 Biofuel from Food Waste.- 16 Nutrient Recovery from Food Waste Using Black Solider Fly Larvae.- 17 Bioreactor Technologies for Biogas Generation from Food Waste.- 18 Cutting-edge Approaches and Technologies for Nutrient Reclamation from Food Waste.- 19 Zero Waste Integrative Approach to Recovery Bioactive Compounds from Lemon By-products.- 20 Waste-to-Energy Solutions for Sustainable Food Waste Management.- 21 Food Waste Derived Metal Nanoparticles.- 22 Scope of Food Waste to Resource Recovery.
About the author
Dr. Pardeep Singh is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Studies, PGDAV College, University of Delhi in New Delhi, India. He obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi. He was selected as a Young Scientist by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), India, for the BRICS Young Scientist Conclave held in Durban, South Africa, in 2018. His research interests include waste management, wastewater treatment, water scarcity, and global climate change. He has published more than 85 research papers/book chapters in international journals/books in the field of environmental science and climate change. He has also edited over 70 books with international publishers, including Springer Nature, Elsevier, CRC Press, and Wiley.
Dr. Ravindra Pratap Singh, currently working as Chairman of UP Pollution Control Board, Lucknow, India, also served as Chief Engineer in the Central Public Works Department (CPWD), Govt. of India; he is an astute leader with over 25 years of experience in the fields of Public Procurement, Project Management, monitoring/implementation of environmental and social safeguards, urban planning, solid waste management, wastewater treatment, etc. Ravindra has a special interest in Sustainable Development, especially in sustainable construction. He has worked with the World Bank on Highway Projects in India and with JICA on a Japanese Govt. grant aid project at Varanasi. As an expert and member of the heritage conservation committee on the river Ganga, he was associated with conserving the river in Varanasi. In addition to his profession, he has a keen interest in academics and published various articles on environmental management and pollution control. He also edited books with international publishers like Springer, Wiley, etc. He graduated in Civil Engineering in 1989 from Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology and his post-graduation in Civil Engineering (specialization in structure engineering) from IIT (BHU) in 1991–1993. He got his PhD from the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
