Food Waste to Energy: An Overview of Sustainable Approaches for Food Waste Management and Nutrient Recycling (BMRI2017-2370927)
Review Article
Food Waste to Energy: An Overview of Sustainable Approaches
for Food Waste Management and Nutrient Recycling
Kunwar Paritosh, 1 Sandeep K. Kushwaha, 2 Monika Yadav, 1 Nidhi Pareek, 3
Aakash Chawade, 2 and Vivekanand Vivekanand 1
1
Centre for Energy and Environment, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302017, India
Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 101, 230 53 Alnarp, Sweden
3
Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Rajasthan Bandarsindri, Kishangarh,
Ajmer, Rajasthan 305801, India
2
Correspondence should be addressed to Vivekanand Vivekanand; vivekanand.cee@mnit.ac.in
Received 14 November 2016; Revised 29 December 2016; Accepted 12 January 2017; Published 14 February 2017
Academic Editor: José L. Campos
Copyright © 2017 Kunwar Paritosh et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution
License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly
cited.
Food wastage and its accumulation are becoming a critical problem around the globe due to continuous increase of the world
population. The exponential growth in food waste is imposing serious threats to our society like environmental pollution, health
risk, and scarcity of dumping land. There is an urgent need to take appropriate measures to reduce food waste burden by adopting
standard management practices. Currently, various kinds of approaches are investigated in waste food processing and management
for societal benefits and applications. Anaerobic digestion approach has appeared as one of the most ecofriendly and promising
solutions for food wastes management, energy, and nutrient production, which can contribute to world’s ever-increasing energy
requirements. Here, we have briefly described and explored the different aspects of anaerobic biodegrading approaches for food
waste, effects of cosubstrates, effect of environmental factors, contribution of microbial population, and available computational
resources for food waste management researches.
