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“It is worth noting that preventing food becoming wasted (e.g. via preventing food waste at source, feeding to other people, etc.) may be more effective than diverting food that has already been categorised as waste away from landfill and incineration to other waste destinations higher up the food waste hierarchy (e.g. composting, anaerobic digestion).”
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“Consequently, edible products are sorted out due to quality, expired before being purchased, or being damaged or spilled in the market [6,43,64,66].”
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“Excessive cooking in the household causes food waste, but the type of service provided in the food service industry, which provides an excessive amount of food such as a buffet, also causes food waste [43,64,105].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Garrone, P., Melacini, M., & Perego, A.
- Affiliations
- Politecnico di Milano (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Melacini, Marco
- Venue
- Food Policy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-06
- Volume
- 46
- Pages
- 129-139
- ISSN
- 0306-9192 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3125771866
- Cited by
- 394
- References
- 44
- Citations by year
- 2026: 22 · 2025: 31 · 2024: 27 · 2023: 35 · 2022: 51 · 2021: 52 · 2020: 39 · 2019: 36 · 2018: 32 · 2017: 32 · 2016: 21 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 4
- FWCI
- 32.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Locations
- Food Policy (publishedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (acceptedVersion)
- Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Keywords
- food waste reduction, food supply chain sustainability, food waste reduction strategies
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