1-Jul-2025
Food waste: Recycling, not discarding, offers huge environmental benefits
University of Pennsylvania
Researchers at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and their collaborators examine how common food waste recycling methods, including composting, could have a huge impact on greenhouse gas emissions mitigation and the sparing of natural resources such as land and water. Food loss and waste, in particular, are “a big deal,” says Zhengxia Dou. They account for almost a third of the food produced for human consumption.
- Journal
- Nature Food
- Funder
- National Key Research and Development Program of China, National Key Research and Development Program of China, Major Science and Technology Projects in Yunnan Province, Major Science and Technology of Shandong Province, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Major Science and Technology Project of Shandong Province, National Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province, China