title: Food Waste to Energy: An Overview of Sustainable Approaches for Food Waste Management and Nutrient Recycling.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Energy and Environment, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302017, India.
authors.forename: Kunwar
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Paritosh
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 101, 230 53 Alnarp, Sweden.
authors.forename: Sandeep K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Kushwaha
authors.affiliation: Centre for Energy and Environment, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302017, India.
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yadav
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Rajasthan Bandarsindri, Kishangarh, Ajmer, Rajasthan 305801, India.
authors.forename: Nidhi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Pareek
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 101, 230 53 Alnarp, Sweden.
authors.forename: Aakash
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chawade
authors.affiliation: Centre for Energy and Environment, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302017, India.
authors.forename: Vivekanand
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-3847-2260
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Vivekanand
mesh_terms: D000641:Ammonia / Q000737:chemistry; D000693:Anaerobiosis; D001673:Biodegradation, Environmental; D056804:Biofuels; D002244:Carbon / Q000737:chemistry; D004777:Environment; D005232:Fatty Acids, Volatile / Q000737:chemistry; D005502:Food; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D006868:Hydrolysis; D008697:Methane / Q000737:chemistry; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000737:chemistry; D009930:Organic Chemicals; D059027:Recycling / Q000379:methods*; D012037:Refuse Disposal / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D056804:Biofuels; D005232:Fatty Acids, Volatile; D009930:Organic Chemicals; D002244:Carbon; D000641:Ammonia; D009584:Nitrogen; D008697:Methane