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WatSan - Water and sanitation, used in the same way as WASH; WC - Water closet; WEF - Water-Energy-Food nexus; WG - Working group, e.g. working groups of SuSanA; WinS - WASH in schools; WHO - World Health Organization; WPM - Water point mapping; WSP: Water and sanitation program of the World Bank; Water safety plan; Waste stabilization pond
Since 1915, food waste has been identified as a considerable problem and has been the subject of ongoing media attention, intensifying with the launch of the "Love Food, Hate Waste" campaign in 2007. Food waste has been discussed in newspaper articles, news reports and television programmes, which have increased awareness of it as a public issue.
The content in the “Food waste” page also covers food loss, and therefore would be better retitled as “food loss and waste.” The first line in the lead of the article incorrectly equates food loss with food waste by saying, “Food waste or food loss….” This would be corrected with the retitling of the page.
Subsets of this category are solid waste management, water and wastewater treatment, industrial waste treatment and noise pollution control. According to World health organization (WHO) Environmental sanitation was defined as the control of all those factors in the physical environment which exercise a harmful effect on human being physical ...
Different types of waste input (such as plant waste, food waste, tyres) placed in the pyrolysis process potentially yield an alternative to fossil fuels. [53] Pyrolysis is a process of thermo-chemical decomposition of organic materials by heat in the absence of stoichiometric quantities of oxygen ; the decomposition produces various hydrocarbon ...
Transforming food waste to either food products, feed products, or converting it to or extracting food or feed ingredients is termed as food waste valorisation. Valorisation of food waste offers an economical and environmental opportunity, which can reduce the problems of its conventional disposal. Food wastes have been demonstrated to be ...
Making a city "sustainable" means thinking about how to meet the housing, power, food and economic needs of its residents—not just today, but years from now. As a city's population swells, its leaders must plan ahead. They need to build resilience into communities that depend on government to deliver vital services.
The main aim of the day is to raise awareness to the importance of food loss and waste related problems and their possible solutions at all levels, and also to promote global efforts and collective action towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goal Target 12.3, which targets to halve per capita food waste at the retail and consumer level ...