WP6 Valorization

REFRESH Final Results Brochure

franka.paetzke — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:48:09 +0000

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The REFRESH final results brochure provides an overview of the work undertaken within the project including key insights and links to the results that are available online.

Role of food waste valorisation potential

franka.paetzke — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 09:02:32 +0000

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This report provides an overview of how the valorisation tasks within the REFRESH project support the EU food waste targets.

Scale up models and processes

franka.paetzke — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 08:57:48 +0000

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It can be difficult for businesses to identify in which conditions a valorization option is economically feasible. Using a case study on a chicory processing by-product, this report presents a methodology for a well-underpinned assessment of practical economic feasibility.

Food waste high value exploitation hypothesis testing

franka.paetzke — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:01:46 +0000

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Valorising food waste by extracting high value food ingredients such as bioactives is a preferable alternative to traditional valorisation approaches, such as animal feed. This report investigates the potential benefits and drawbacks, as well as favorable conditions for such processes through a number of case studies, using tomato side streams as an example.

Identification of food waste conversion barriers

franka.paetzke — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 10:15:14 +0000

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This report identifies how external conditions (legislative, environmental, social and economic) can influence development of food waste conversion options, specifically through conversion of currently wasted food to animal feed.

Viability of bio-based chemicals from food waste

franka.paetzke — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 08:29:13 +0000

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In many countries, a considerable proportion of wasted food and food residues still ends up as mixed putrescible waste which contains a high-water content and which may vary considerably both regionally and seasonally. Market assessments show domination of crop-based commodity feedstocks such as maize or corn and plant-based lipids rather than food chain wastes. The authors investigate the conversion of mixed post-consumer organic putrescible food waste materials into fuels and chemicals.

Technical Guidelines Animal Feed

franka.paetzke — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 16:02:57 +0000

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These technical guidelines describe in detail the environmental, economic, nutrition and safety considerations of reforming EU law to enable surplus food containing meat to be fed to omnivorous non-ruminant livestock like pigs, in order to drive food waste valorisation through animal feed.

Quiz: Food Waste Valorisation

melanie.kemper — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 15:27:56 +0000

The production of food results in by-products. Instead of disposing them as waste, they can also be valorised into new products. This quiz lets you find out what new products can be made from this food waste. The player scrolls two image galleries and chooses two pictures that correspond as food waste and new product. When clicking 'submit' the player is informed whether the assignment was correct. There are eight possible pairs to be found.

FoodWasteEXplorer

melanie.kemper — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 16:14:57 +0000

Decision Support System

FoodWasteEXplorer is an online, searchable database of food waste compositional data. It allows users to search for nutrients, bioactives, toxicants and other waste related data in specific side streams.

FORKLIFT: Assessing climate impacts and costs of using food side streams

melanie.kemper — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:36:50 +0000

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FORKLIFT is a spreadsheet learning tool that indicates life cycle greenhouse gas emissions and costs for using selected food side flows . It allows users to interpret the results regarding the effects of intervention with the additional effect of making it possible to compare the results with alternative products available on the market.

Valorisation Database: FoodWasteEXplorer

melanie.kemper — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 08:19:54 +0000

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The “FoodWasteEXplorer” is an online database that provides industry, SME, researchers, government agencies and the general public with access to the biochemical composition of agri-food chain waste streams. This information can be used to identify the level of certain compounds in different side streams so that the user can explore how food waste may be better managed and helps to identify market opportunities. Use of the FoodWasteEXplorer is free-of-charge and can be accessed at: ws.eurofir.org/foodwasteexplorer

Using steam exploded vegetable side streams as food ingredients

keighley.mcfarland — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 08:00:52 +0000

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The report investigates using vegetable side streams, treated using a thermophysical technique known as steam explosion, as food ingredients and tests their functionality in model food products.

Detailed hierarchy of approaches categorized within waste pyramid

keighley.mcfarland — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 07:51:12 +0000

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The report provides a baseline understanding of the current management approaches identified in previous research undertaken by REFRESH with respect to the policy concept of a Waste Hierarchy. It categorises management approaches that have been identified for 20 selected food production residues.

REFRESH interim results to 2018 presented in brochure

keighley.mcfarland — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 14:55:04 +0000

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This brochure describes the interim results of the REFRESH (Resource Efficient Food and dRink for the Entire Supply cHain) project through May 2018. REFRESH’s research into the behaviours, economics, and relationships that lead to food waste will inform future recommendations for efficient and versatile solutions to food waste at all levels of production.

Animal Feed Tool

melissa.maxter — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 22:00:00 +0000

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The United Nations estimates that if farmers around the world fed their livestock on the food that we currently waste and on agricultural by-products, enough grain would be liberated to feed an extra three billion people. To help food businesses contribute to such a grand waste-free future, REFRESH has built a web app for businesses to clarify which surplus food is suitable, and what needs to be done to send the food to animal feed in a safe and legal way.