Food waste definition

Biowaste, Vegetable, Garden and Fruit, and Food Waste Relevance of a Definition on the Performance of the Waste Management System... 

The complexity of the problems associated with future food packaging can be seen from these examples. We have focused on only one factor in one segment of the food industry—the effect of change in solid waste disposal. The present uncertainties in technical and political aspects of the disposal problem prevent a definite decision as to whether packaging changes should be made. All the industry can do at present is prepare itself for a possible major shift that would have to be made in a short time. 

REACH is very wide in its scope covering aU substances (see definition of substances in Section 2.4.1) whether manufactured, imported, used as intermediates or placed on the market, either on their own, in preparations or in articles, unless they are radioactive, subject to customs supervision, or are nonisolated intermediates. Waste is specifically exempted. Food is not subject to REACH, as it is not a substance, preparation, or article. Member States may exempt substances used in the interests of defense. Other substances are exempted from parts of REACH, where other equivalent legislation applies for fiufher details refer EU (2006i). 

The definition of waste is presented as the remains of substances subjected to the action of several agents, such as ashes, which are the residue from combustion of firewood. According to Peltier and Sapota (2009), waste is an inevitable product of any life and consumption cycles. These authors argue that the daily habit of the humans in throwing away their waste had onset on the prehistoric era, in which they disposed of food remains at the same place they used to eat. (Eklund et al. 2010 Engkvist 2010a). 

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