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Tipo: Artigo de Periódico
Título: Compositional analysis of street market food waste in Brazil
Autor(es): Pedro Brancoli
Fausto Makishi
Paula Garcia Lima
Kamran Rousta
Resumen: Current understanding of food waste quantities in the Brazilian retail sector is limited. In order to develop efficient measures for food waste prevention and valorisation, reliable data on waste generation and composition are necessary. In this study, a compositional analysis of street market waste was conducted in São Paulo, Brazil. In total, 4.1 tonnes of waste were sorted into 27 waste fractions, categorised using a three-level approach. The average waste generation in the studied street markets was 23.7 kg per stall, of which 12.8 kg was classified as unavoidable food waste, 3.6 kg as packaging waste, and 7.4 kg as avoidable waste. The results show large amounts of unavoidable food waste, comprised of coconut, sugarcane bagasse, and peels. A large share of the avoidable food waste is comprised of single leaves, tomatoes, oranges, and bananas. Large variations were observed among the street markets analysed, both in terms of the food waste generation rate, and composition. The results from scaling up the data at the city level indicated a total wastage of 59,300 tonnes per year, of which 18,400 tonnes are classified as avoidable food waste.
Asunto: Resíduos orgânicos
Feiras livres
Alimentos - Comércio
Idioma: eng
País: Brasil
Editor: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Sigla da Institución: UFMG
Departamento: ICA - INSTITUTO DE CIÊNCIAS AGRÁRIAS
Tipo de acceso: Acesso Aberto
Identificador DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14127014
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/61002
Fecha del documento: 8-jun-2022
metadata.dc.url.externa: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/12/7014
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Sustainability
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