Sustainable Food Waste Evaluation

Nationwide, people generate over 34 million tons of food waste annually – with most of this organic waste going to landfills. This research estimated the economic, environmental, and operational costs and benefits of different food waste management alternatives. It examined two common alternatives which use wastewater facilities with anaerobic digestion and co-generation of heat and power and compared these practices to other food waste management alternatives including landfilling, composting and mixed waste recovery operations. Published by WERF. 118 pages. Soft cover and online PDF. (2012)

Originally funded as WERF project OWSO5R07e.