Table 5.
Examples of FLW recycling interventions by supply chain stage.
Supply chain stage | Government policy | Technology | Practice or behavior |
---|---|---|---|
Farms, manufacturers, retailers, and restaurants | • Impose bans or fines for disposing of food waste in landfills (retailers and manufacturers) • Provide incentives for redirecting food waste to other purposes (e.g., renewable energy credits) |
• Repurpose food waste through heat-treatment, dehydration, and mixing for animal feed • Use centralized anaerobic digestion for energy production from food waste • Use commercial gray water aerobic digesters to break down food waste • Use in-vessel composting to generate compost from food waste • Use municipal water recovery resource facilities to convert food waste to biosolids for land application |
• Divert trimmings and by-products to animal feed • Transport food waste to centralized composting facility |
Consumers | • Provide curbside collection of compostable food scraps |
• None identified |
• Compost food waste on-site at residential locations |
Sources: Adapted from NRDC (2017) and ReFED (2016).