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International Conference on

Recent Trends in Environmental Sustainability

ESCON22/SWMR/08
Awareness of food waste management in district Vehari, Pakistan

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Saira Batool , Samina Khalid , M. Shafique Khalid , M. Asif Naeem
1 Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari- Campus,
61100 Pakistan
Correspondence: saminakhalid@ciitvehari.edu.pk
Abstract

Food waste has become alarming issue in overall world as food items are wasted at each level
of food supply chain that will lead to food security and malnutrition. Food is wasted during its
production, harvesting, storage and handling, processing, and consumption. Globally, one-third
of food is wasted every year, that also waste the resources such as land and labour cost,
fertilizer, pesticides etc., and by reducing food waste we can reduce and conserve these
resources. There are many management approaches to reduce the food waste and loss. These
are food denotation, animal feeding, composting, anaerobic digestion, incineration and
burning, and landfilling. This current study is conducted to evaluate the awareness of food
waste management and management approaches adopted by population of District Vehari. An
online questionnaire was designed to conduct the responses of community due to COVID-19
pandemic. The results evaluated that more than 25% population used composting, 23%
population produced Biogas from FW and 22% people dried and burnt the FW to manage it.
The results of this study also indicated that there is almost much information about food waste
management, mostly population used to store their surplus food for further consumption and
the common method adopted by community is animal feeding. There will be need to aware and
inform the community about consequences of food waste and other technical and developed
ways to manage food waste.

Keywords: Food waste, FWM, Food security, Animal Feeding, Composting, Incineration

Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari Campus

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