Waste to Food : Returning nutrients to the food chain

This book focuses on the search for possibilities of valuable food waste transformation directly to food, by introducing the 'Waste-to-Food Concept' .

It goes beyond conventional technologies of food waste transformation into compost and organic fertilisers (downgrading the value of food waste biomass).

It focuses on novel processing technologies and bio-transformation methods to food grade biomass.

Food waste biomass of non-food grade quality can be used for high-value components extraction and as a carbon and nitrogen source for specific algae and insect cultivation.

The discussed methods are complex and contradictive with multiple legal, socio-economic, environmental and nutritional issues.

Therefore, this book thoroughly focuses on analysing these issues, and searching for viable ways to proceed, such as eco-design and application of Artificial Intelligence algorithms as solutions for the complex Waste-to-Food system.