Management considerations and environmental benefit analysis for turning food garbage into agricultural resources

Bioresource Technology
Wen-Tien Tsai

Abstract

The management of food garbage is of great importance because of its high energy consumption, potential environmental hazards and public health risks. In Taiwan, through the competent authorities at all levels and the citizens' participation in sorting household wastes, many recycling efforts have recently been implemented to further utilize it as available resources such as swine feeds and organic fertilizer by composting. As a result, a total of approximately 570 thousand metric tons was recycled with a recycling ratio of about 21.2% on a basis of food garbage generation in 2006, rising over 22% from a year earlier. These figures showed that compulsory garbage sorting has indeed dramatically increased the recycling of food garbage. The objective of this paper is to present and discuss some management considerations in turning food garbage into agricultural resources due to the compulsory garbage sorting directive in Taiwan. The description first aims at the current status in food garbage generation and its recycling, and at the regulatory polices which have become effective since 2000. It also centers on the environmental and agricultural measures on upgrading food garbage recycling. Based on the preliminary analysis of envir...Continue Reading

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Jun 6, 2002·Environment International·Hwong-Wen MaChang-Chuan Chan
Sep 24, 2004·Bioresource Technology·P W Westerman, J R Bicudo

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Jul 13, 2011·Waste Management & Research : the Journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA·Kim BrinckHenrik Skov
Jul 6, 2010·Waste Management & Research : the Journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA·Yiu C Chan Weijin Wang
Sep 22, 2009·Waste Management & Research : the Journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA·Tjalfe G Poulsen, Jens Aage Hansen

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