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    Food waste high value exploitation hypothesis testing

    This report shows the factors that determine when high value exploitation would be most successful. By means of a number of product examples we illustrate how situational conditions affect feasibility of such high-value exploitation options: input material price; extraction costs, specifically effect of scale (economies of scale: advantage of large-scale with respect to amongst others fixed capital and labour costs); market and prices for reference applications: the European feed market is a mature buyer of by-products (both liquid and dry) for animal feeds; logistic costs: small-scale processing may benefit from small scale size if the input material can be sourced locally in a small area; likewise short distance toward end-users can be advantageous. In conclusion, this report demonstrates that the broadly recognized conception that food waste (more specially food processing side streams) are adequate sources for high value food ingredients can be realized in profitable business.

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    REFRESH

    Resource Efficient Food and dRink for the Entire Supply cHain

    Location
    • Europe
    Authors
    • Toine Timmermans
    Purpose
    • Dissemination
    • Decision-making support
    File type
    Document
    File size
    1.24 MB
    Created on
    21-08-2019
    Origin language
    English
    Official project website
    REFRESH
    License
    CC BY
    Keywords
    • Recyclin
    • pEconomics of Food Waste
    • ValorisationInnovation
    • Social Entrepreneurshi
    • Re-Use

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