Recycling of food waste into chemical building blocks

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dc.contributor.authorKumar, Vinod
dc.contributor.authorLonghurst, Philip
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-15T10:45:34Z
dc.date.available2018-06-15T10:45:34Z
dc.date.issued2018-05-30
dc.description.abstractEnormous quantities of food waste (FW) arise from global production. Roughly, one third of all food for human consumption is wasted resulting in huge costs to the world economy alongside significant environmental problems. FW is a potential reservoir of functionalized molecules, i.e. carbohydrates, proteins and lipids that can be recovered, concentrated and transformed into high value products. Conversion of renewable carbon from FW to building block chemicals can also more profitable than conventional processing methods. Recent studies have used microbial routes to recover value from FW into a number of chemical building blocks. Recycling FW into valuable chemicals directly contributes to the transition from current fossil fuel-based economies to a bioeconomy and reduced waste society. This paper reviews the potential for using FW and focuses on recent updates in second-generation valorisation methods where the bioproduction of chemical building blocks uses FW as a feedstock.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationVinod Kumar and Philip Longhurst. Recycling of food waste into chemical building blocks. Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, Volume 13, Issue October, 2018, pp. 118-122en_UK
dc.identifier.issn2452-2236
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsc.2018.05.012
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13233
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherElsevieren_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectFood wasteen_UK
dc.subjectChemical building blocksen_UK
dc.subjectSuccinic aciden_UK
dc.subjectLactic aciden_UK
dc.subject2,3-Butanediolen_UK
dc.subjectEthanolen_UK
dc.subjectn-Butanolen_UK
dc.titleRecycling of food waste into chemical building blocksen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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