Table 2.

Municipal food waste composition data for the UK and South Korea.

		United Kingdom			South Korea
		(Zhang et al., 2013)	(Banks et al., 2011)	(WRAP, 2010)	(Kim and Kim, 2010)
PH		5.4	5	n.a	4.2
TS	%wwa	27.3	24.4	27.7	20
VS	%ww	25.4	22.3	23.35	14.7
Ash	%ww	1.8	2.1	2.0	5.3
CV	MJ/kg TS	21.1	21.2	26.53n	1.18–20.27
Elemental analysis
N	%TS	2.9	3.2		3.6
C	%TS	49.7	50.3	49.32	51.0
H	%TS	6.4	6.3	6.5	6.0
S	%TS	n.a	0.2	0.4	0.2
O	%TS	34.7	31.7	37.1	39.2

^aww = wet weigh.