Food Wastage and Environmental Impact and Solution

Running head: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Food wastage and environmental impact and solution
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Table of Content
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Literature review........................................................................................................................3
Environmental impact............................................................................................................3
Recommendation....................................................................................................................5
Composting........................................................................................................................5
France policies and law......................................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
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Introduction
The term food waste refer disposal of unconsumed food into ground or water without
abiding by any recycling procedure. Food waste has various direct and indirect impact on
environment, ecosystem as well as agricultural sustainability. Consumable raw food materials
come from agriculture, livestock and fishery (Mu et al., 2017). These raw food materials are
processed in different food processing industries and in household cooking and finally reach
to the consumer. From emitting Greenhouse gases to increasing soil erosion food waste has
huge impact on the ecosystem as well as on the environment.
The report focuses on various procedures through which the food waste is affecting
the environment. After that, some recommendation will be made for the social awareness to
reduce the impact of the food waste and to reduce the food-wasting rate. The purpose of this
report is to examine the environmental impact of food waste and to find the recommendation
to avoid the devastating outcomes in near future. The process of composting and France
environmental policies and laws will be also discussed in the recommendation section.
Literature review
Environmental impact
Food wastages occurs mainly at the production stage of food processing system due to
insufficient skills, lack of appropriate infrastructure, natural calamities and poor practices. On
the other hand, food waste also occurs if consumers intentionally discard the edible food after
they fail to arrange their meals properly and store food until it becomes rotten or goes past the
predetermined expiry date. The environmental impact of food waste depends on the organic
and inorganic materials present in the environment, where the food disposal is done.