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Discard studies have demonstrated that waste is more than just a symptom of an all-too-human demand for meaning or a merely technical problem for sanitary engineers and public health officials. The afterlife of waste materials and processes of waste management reveal the centrality of transient and discarded things for questions of materiality and ontology and marginal and polluting labor and environmental justice movements, as well as for critiques of the exploitation and deferred promises of modernity and imperial formations. There is yet more waste will tell us, especially as more studies continue to document the many ways that our wastes are not only our problem, but become entangled with the lives of nonhuman creatures and the future of the planet we share.

The global political economy of waste -- Understanding wastes -- Waste work -- Discarded electronics -- Food waste -- Plastic scrap.

Intro -- FOOD WASTE: PRACTICES, MANAGEMENT AND CHALLENGES -- FOOD WASTE: PRACTICES, MANAGEMENT AND CHALLENGES -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: FOOD WASTE: AN EXPRESSION OF THE EVOLUTION OF CURRENT AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- WASTE AND DOMINANT POSITIONS IN THE AGRIFOOD SUPPLY CHAINS -- WASTE AND OTHER PARADOXES OF THE AGRIFOOD SYSTEMS -- INITIATIVES AGAINST LOSSES AND WASTE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH -- Chapter 2: FOOD WASTES AS SOURCES OF NATURAL ANTIOXIDANTS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. RECOVERY OF ANTIOXIDANT COMPOUNDS FROM FOOD WASTES -- 2.1. Recovery of Antioxidants for Application as Functional Food Ingredients -- 2.2. Recovery of Antioxidants for Application as Food Preservatives -- 2.3. Recovery of Antioxidants for Applications Not Related to Food -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3: POTENTIAL OF SPENT COFFEE GROUNDS AS SOURCES OF DIETARY FIBER WITH ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CHEMICAL COMPOSITION -- 3. RECOVERY OF PHENOLICS AND ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4: POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS OF FOOD WASTES TO BIOENERGY BY ANAEROBIC PROCESSES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- FOOD WASTES AS A SUBSTRATE IN ANAEROBIC DIGESTION PROCESS -- IDEAL PARAMETERS TO ANAEROBIC DIGESTION OF FOOD WASTES -- Temperature -- Volatile Fatty Acids -- pH -- C/N Ratio -- Nutrients -- Reactors Configurations -- ENERGY POTENTIAL FROM FOOD WASTE ON ANAEROBIC PROCESSES -- Methane Production -- Hydrogen Production -- Others Bio-Products -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5: ANAEROBIC DIGESTION: A PROMISING SOLUTION FOR FOOD WASTE MANAGEMENT IN URBAN AREAS IN VIETNAM -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION.

Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Chapter 1. The beach that speaks; Chapter 2. Trash familiars/Tabflab; Chapter 3. Pigs in space; Chapter 4. Million-year panic; Chapter 5. Ruinism; Chapter 6. Splinter, shard, and stone; Chapter 7. Where the hoard is; Chapter 8. Lake Carbamazepine; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Bibliography; Index.