Greenhouse gas emissions of food waste disposal options for UK retailers
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Preventing food becoming wasted 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.
“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).”
From Review: Consumption-stage food waste reduction interventions – What works and how to design better interventions (2019) · cites this paper as Moult et al., 2018
The results (section labelled “210,” lines 217–229) find that donating edible food mitigates more greenhouse-gas emissions than anaerobic digestion and rank donation above other disposal options. But the paper does not compare preventing waste at source with diverting existing waste, and it finds incineration preferable to composting for some foods. The claim therefore extends beyond its findings. (LLM, conf=0.86)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredLandfills and composting generate large amounts of greenhouse gases and lead to eutrophication and acidification of ecosystems.
“For example, landfills and composting generate large amounts of greenhouse gases and lead to the eutrophication and acidification of ecosystems (Arafat et al. 2015;Moult et al. 2018).”
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The Introduction describes substantial methane emissions from landfills, and §2.2.4 identifies emissions from composting. But Table 6 reports net emissions of −31 kg CO2e per tonne of food waste for composting, so it does not support describing composting’s net greenhouse-gas emissions as large. The passages do not establish that either option causes ecosystem eutrophication or acidification; no page numbers are available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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- Authors
- Moult, J. A., Allan, S. R., Hewitt, C. N., & Berners-Lee, M.
- Affiliations
- Lancaster University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Berners-Lee, M.
- Venue
- Food Policy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-05
- Volume
- 77
- Pages
- 50-58
- ISSN
- 0306-9192 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2800552183
- Cited by
- 174
- References
- 17
- Citations by year
- 2026: 20 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 28 · 2022: 24 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 11.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- eprints.lancs.ac.uk
- Licence
- Locations
- Food Policy (publishedVersion)
- Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Keywords
- food waste disposal, greenhouse gas emissions, food retailers, carbon footprint, anaerobic digestion, composting, landfill, incineration, food donation, animal feed, embodied emissions, energy density, waste hierarchy, food waste reduction
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