Food Waste Management Research Paper

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1.2 Statement of Problem
At present, the majority of manufacturers establish the products with inefficient use of raw materials, energy, water, human resources, treatment, waste management, and so forth. Parfitt and his colleagues [24] have defined the definition of food losses into the decrease in edible food mass throughout the supply chain. Food losses will usually incurred at manufacturing, post harvest and distribution stages in the food supply chain. “Food losses” that occurred in the ending period of the supply chin will be absolutely transformed in to “food waste” which related to the intended consumers and consumers’ behavior [24]. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation [51], the third of food produced …show more content…

The main questions are: to study the majority sources of the waste activities that emerge throughout the supply chain, the extent to which suppliers, manufacturing firms and retailers deal with these wastes in their supply chain, and the study of company’s characteristics that affect to strategy’s choice. The relevant theories will be mentioned in the next chapter.

1.4 Research Questions
Descriptive research asks the question what is the description. When undertaking this research the author needs to gain insight into and understanding of the identification and waste management in food industry supply chain. The author formed the following research questions:
1. Research Questions 1:
What are the causes of waste activity occurred throughout the supply chain in food industry?

2. Research Questions 2:
What are the strategies for waste minimization in manufacturing process in food industry throughout supply chain?

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All the waste can come from poor in infrastructure, transportation, improper storage, and disposal of product not meeting quality standard, improper sales, demand forecasts, and so forth. According to Wyman [60], the author states that retailers are one of the major causes that generate food waste accounted with 5%. Moreover, 61% of food waste comes from households’ level which is the high figure. From these researches, it obviously shows that the household is the main source of the food waste [48]. Nevertheless, the retailers, suppliers, and manufacturers are still in the position to help the household to reduce in food

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