Essay On Food Waste Management

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INTRODUCTION
Due to Hong Kong mainly relies on landfill disposal and the existing landfill in Hong Kong will be saturated by 2020. Hong Kong now is facing a serious waste challenges, which 9,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste (MSW) were disposal in the landfill and food wastes are account for 3,600 tonnes every day. In this reflection notes, I’ll study few articles on the environmental issue that related to food waste management and possible environmental solution. Those articles general uses different case studies and data to proposed or introduce other countries actions on dealing with food waste problem, provide several means and solutions in order to tackle the food waste problem in Hong Kong. In more details, Cheung, J (2016) used the example of USA, how they used technology to commercialized food waste into fish feed …show more content…

and Woon, K. both stated that technologies are needed to boost up the food waste-recycling rate in Hong Kong. After they have studies relevant case studies and technologies in several countries, they both proposed different solutions.
Based on the market demand, technologies availability, regulating obstacles, etc. Cheung, J. proposed to use black soldier fly bioconversion to turn food waste into fish feed, which fish feed is a common trade commodity and there has a huge market demand in Mainland China. Turning food waste into fish feed can tackle the food waste problem in Hong Kong and also can generate economic income by selling those fish feed to China.
On the other hand, Cheung, J. proposed to adopt a new technology to sort food waste from those MSW by optic bag system and recycling food waste into biogas fuel for vehicles usage. He stated that recycle food waste into biogas fuel is more workable due to it can optic bag system, providing lower emissions of greenhouse gases and doesn’t need to negotiate with the electricity providers in Hong Kong as turning food waste into electricity.

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