{"id":103983,"date":"2022-02-04T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T06:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=103983"},"modified":"2022-01-27T13:38:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T12:38:42","slug":"food-waste-can-be-used-in-the-manufacturing-of-biofuels-and-bioplastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/food-waste-can-be-used-in-the-manufacturing-of-biofuels-and-bioplastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Waste Can Be Used In The Manufacturing Of Biofuels And Bioplastics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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I wrote an article which was originally posted in the March 13th, 2017 issue of The Pavlovic Today in which I discussed how plastics can be separated at plastic recycling facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Companies which specialize in recycling glass have equipment which enables the people who work at those companies to easily separate green glass, blue glass, brown glass and clear glass. Companies which specialize in recycling metals have equipment which enables the people who work at those companies to separate different kinds of metals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By contrast, once coffee grinds, fruit and vegetable peel, used tea bags, bones and fat from fish, poultry and meats, and dairy products which have passed their expiration dates are mixed together, these materials cannot be separated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, food waste does not need to be separated. Non food waste items such as packaging which people inadvertently sometimes include with their food waste will need to be removed, but almost all food waste itself is potentially useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mixing fruit, vegetable, dairy and meat products in small sized compost piles that people keep in their backyards is an effective means of making compost or mulch that people can use to grow flowers, vegetables, fruits and herbs in their gardens at home. People throughout the world have been doing this in their home gardens for many centuries, long before scientists fully understood the chemistry which is involved in the processes of biodegrading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, because different kinds of food waste items decompose at different rates, this is not an effective means for producing compost or garden mulch on an industrial scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An attempt to create garden mulch from food waste on an industrial scale would not likely work with existing technologies. There are a number of other uses for food waste products, most notably food waste products can be used as the base materials in manufacturing biofuels and bioplastics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Does Food Waste Contribute To Pollution?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It may initially seem that the decomposition of food waste is potentially harmless because food waste is part of the cycle of growing fruits vegetables or other plants and raising animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If fruits and vegetables are not harvested, they will all eventually either fall to the ground or be eaten by birds, insects and animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, when fruit trees, vegetables, herbs, flower grow in the wild, those plants are part of naturally occurring balanced ecosystems. When animals are born in the wild, they live their lives in wilderness areas, they die in wilderness areas, and this is also part of balanced ecosystems which occur in nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By contrast, when fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers are grown in orchards and on farms on an industrial scale, and when people raise animals on commercial farms, these plants and animals are not part of a naturally occurring ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When food waste is dumped into landfills, food waste is less damaging to ecosystems than plastic micro-beads, which I\u2019d discussed in an article that I wrote which we\u2019d posted in the November 11th, 2018 issue, food waste is less damaging than industrial waste which I\u2019d discussed in an article that I wrote about the Basel Convention, the Stockholm Convention and the Rotterdam Convention which we\u2019d posted on November 4th, 2019, and food waste is less damaging than lead which I\u2019d discussed in an article that I wrote which we\u2019d posted on February 1st, 2021. However we do need to bear in mind that food waste does still contribute to ground, water and air pollution when it is sent into landfills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Food waste products are responsible for causing less damage to the ground, water and air than mercury, lead, plastic micro-beads and all other industrial contaminants because food waste products are almost 100% biodegradable; that\u2019s the reason that people use them to create compost in their gardens at home. As I researched this article, I did find some disagreement among knowledgeable climatologists and ecologists as to the precise extent to which food waste from household garbage contributes to ground pollution and subsequently to water pollution when it is dumped into landfills, however climatologists and ecologists are in full agreement that contaminants from food waste are in fact a contributing factor to ground, water and air pollution throughout the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote an article which was originally posted in the March 13th, 2017 issue of The Pavlovic Today in which I discussed how plastics can be separated at plastic recycling facilities. Companies which specialize in recycling glass have equipment which enables the people who work at those companies to easily separate green glass, blue glass, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"If more municipalities throughout the U.S. and Canada were to implement food waste recycling programs, we\u2019d be able to reduce some of our annual consumption of fossil fuels","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[11270,5838,5842,5847,12366,7105,10453],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-103983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biodegradability","tag-bioeconomy","tag-biomass","tag-bioplastics","tag-fuels","tag-packaging","tag-recycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103983"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=103983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}