Silvia Scherhaufer

• BOKU University

Food waste significantly impacts the environment and nutrient availability. In Sweden, public meals generate 33,000 tonnes of food waste annually, with elementary schools contributing 9,200 tonnes. A composition analysis of plate waste from 4913 meals in two elementary schools in Uppsala, Sweden identified the wasted food components and quantities....

Emerging photovoltaic systems (EPVs) such as organic solar cells, dye-sensitized solar cells, perovskite solar cells, and quantum dots solar cells are currently under development, opening up new fields of application due to their lightweight and flexible design and low-cost production. To assess the environmental sustainability of innovations or ad...

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) show high energy densities and are therefore used in a wide range of applications: from portable electronics to stationary energy storage systems and traction batteries used for e-mobility. Considering the projected increase in global demand for this energy storage technology, driven primarily by growth in e-vehicles, a...

Zusammenfassung Mit anhaltender Verkehrswende nimmt die Bedeutung von Lithium-Ionen-Batterien (LIB) in Zukunft stark zu. Im Sinne der Kreislaufwirtschaft sind einerseits die optimale und nachhaltige Nutzung vorhandener Ressourcen, andererseits das Schließen von Material-Kreisläufen durch geeignete und effiziente Recyclingverfahren unabdingbar. Der...

One-third of food is lost or wasted throughout the entire supply chain. For the European Union, this accounts for 88 million tonnes (Mt). Due to this high amount, the environmental impacts that can be attributed to this waste are also significant. 186 Mt of CO2-equivalents (CO2e) can be related to food wastage in the European Union, which accounts...

Zusammenfassung Bis 2040 soll die Stromversorgung in Österreich laut aktuellem Regierungsprogramm klimaneutral sein und somit zu 100 % aus erneuerbarer Energie erfolgen. Dieses Ziel ist mit großen Ambitionen im Ausbau der Anlagen zur Erzeugung von erneuerbarer Energie, vor allem im Bereich der Photovoltaik und Windkraft, verbunden. Ziel dieses Beit...

Tomato and tomato products are the most consumed vegetables worldwide. However, reduction of their relatively high emission intensity can be a key to mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the agrifood sector. Using the European Union (EU) and its 28 member states as example, we mapped the mass flow and analyzed the efficiency of the entire t...

Residues from the food manufacturing industry require management options with the best overall environmental outcome. The identification of sustainable solutions depends however, on many influencing factors such as energy input, transport distance, and substituted product. This study shows the influence of the choice of substituted products on the...

Meat production and consumption contribute significantly to environmental impacts such as greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These emissions can be reduced via various strategies ranging from production efficiency improvement to process optimization, food waste reduction, trade pattern change, and diet structure change. On the basis of a material flow...

In der Europäischen Union (EU) fallen jährlich etwa 88 Mio. Tonnen an Lebensmittelabfällen an, wobei die meisten Abfälle in privaten Haushalten entstehen (Stenmarck et al. 2016). Die Vermeidung von Lebensmittelabfällen hat oberste Priorität. Lebensmittelabfälle, die sich nicht oder nur bedingt vermeiden lassen, wie z. B. Produktionsrückstände, Pres...

Europe’s solid biomass to energy sector is dominated by SMEs. What is and can be their role in fostering innovation and growth in rural areas in view of the emerging bio-based circular economy? The SecureChain project demonstrated how market uptake of efficient bioenergy systems and sustainable biomass mobilisation by SMEs can be promoted with the...

Link: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1X1ud,LlFP2JkP Approximately 88 Million tonnes (Mt) of food is wasted in the European Union each year and the environmental impacts of these losses throughout the food supply chain are widely recognised. This study illustrates the impacts of food waste in relation to the total food utilised, including the impac...

The objectives of this food waste Policy Evaluation Framework are to help policy makers assess, monitor and track progress of policy measures (in place and to be developed) to prevent and reduce food waste, including (but not limited to) via social innovation, to present indicators and criteria to evaluate such policies, and to identify any barrier...

Food waste is an issue of importance to global food security and good environmental governance, directly linked with environmental (e.g. energy, climate change, water, availability of resources), economic (e.g. resource efficiency, price volatility, increasing costs, consumption, waste management, commodity markets) and social (e.g. health, equalit...

European-funded food waste prevention project FUSIONS has developed the criteria and a baseline assessment of environmental and socio-economic impacts of food waste. Although this research has shown that there are still some major data gaps for a more comprehensive assessment, these findings can serve as documentation for the existing knowledge bas...

Preventing and reducing food waste along supply chains is a high priority in many countries. Market based instruments and economic incentives are important tools for stimulating food supply-chain operators and households to food waste prevention and reduction. This study analyses the potential of market based instruments and economic incentives as...

Disparities in earnings between Western and Eastern European countries are the reason for a well-established informal sector actively involved in collection and transboundary shipment activities from Austria to Hungary. The preferred objects are reusable items and wastes within the categories bulky waste, WEEE and metals, intended to be sold on fle...

Benefits of Social Supermarkets Social supermarkets sell surplus food at a reduced price to poorer members of the community. As well as contributing to food waste prevention, social supermarkets have several social benefits. They support poorer people who have had particular challenges (e.g. long-term unemployment). Many social supermarkets have a...

The automotive sector is facing the challenge to become more resource-efficient in the manufacture of cars and their components. One approach is to increase the share of recycled materials. This paper presents the results of a case study for the automotive sector of the EU-funded Zerowin project. A safety-relevant component of the braking system wa...

This paper presents the measures taken in the demonstration of the photovoltaic case study developed within the European project 'Towards zero waste in industrial networks' (Zerowin), integrating the D4R (Design for recycling, repair, refurbishment and reuse) criteria at both system and industrial network level. The demonstration is divided into th...

The existence of informal waste collection also in Central Europe has more or less been neglected to date. The European informal collectors are collecting commodities in one of the economic well-developed EU 15 member states, bring it to their home countries (in most of the cases CEE countries) and sell it at flea markets. Mainly bulky waste, metal...

European informal collectors are collecting commodities in one of the economic well-developed EU 15 member states, bring it to their home countries (in most of the cases they come from CEE countries) and sell it at flea markets. In contrast to the situation in developing countries mainly bulky waste, metal, WEEE and textiles are collected. The dime...

Project funding: Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection Project duration: 01. June 2011 - 29. February 2012 The project was aimed at estimating the quantities of food waste generated in Germany on the basis of statistics, research, literature, surveys, expert consultations and specific studies on a random basis. Beyond that...

Projektförderung: Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz Projektlaufzeit: 01.06.2011 bis 29.02.2012 Ziel des Vorhabens war es, erstmals auf Basis von Statistiken, Recherchen, Literatur, Umfragen, Expertengesprächen sowie von stichprobenhaften Einzeluntersuchungen im Haushaltsbereich die in Deutschland anfallenden Men...

Rapide Verstädterung, zunehmende Abfallmengen und Kommunen, denen es an finanziellen und personellen Ressourcen fehlt, sind die Rahmenbedingungen für die Abfallwirtschaft in Ländern mit geringem Einkommen. Die „formelle“ Abfallwirtschaft, repräsentiert durch nationale und regionale Stellen respektive private Unternehmen, ist hier nicht in der Lage,...

The project “ZeroWIN - Towards Zero Waste in Industrial Networks” is funded by the EC under the 7th Framework Programme. The practical demonstrator “ReUse ICT Network” represents one of ten ZeroWIN case studies. ICT products contain high material value. Therefore ReUse-Computer has been drawn up as a “Value-Conservation Network” in 2001, aiming to...

This paper is based mainly on the outcomes of the project “TransWaste – formalisation of informal sector activities in collection and transboundary shipment of wastes in and to Central and Eastern European Countries” (www.transwaste.eu) funded within the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme co-financed by the ERDF. The project deals with informal activities, m...