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## Abstract This study assesses the suitability of flour food products wasted during the distribution phase to be used as raw material for the production of animal feed. Landfill is nowadays the most adopted end of life option for flour food products. Nonetheless, by setting up a specific sorting system, it would be possible to separate the wasted food from its packaging and to recover both of them. In this latter case, food waste could be better valorised, by diverting it to alternative channels, such as anaerobic digestion or animal feeding. In this study, the environmental performance of two valorisation scenarios for floor food waste intended to be used to produce animal feed were analysed using the Life Cycle Assessment methodology. The new scenarios are compared with one another and with the traditional feed production. Results of the study show that the new scenarios lead to environmental benefits for all the considered impact categories.

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Author

David Mosna; Giuseppe Vignali; Eleonora Bottani; Roberto Montanari

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG; Walter de Gruyter GmbH (ISSN 2194-5764)

Published

2016

Language

EN

Field

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)