This report continues and further advances the work conducted by the JRC in the field of sustainable management of food waste, which resulted in the publication of the 2015 report "Improving Sustainability and Circularity of European Food Waste Management with a Life Cycle Approach". It focuses...

This report continues and further advances the work conducted by the JRC in the field of sustainable management of food waste, which resulted in the publication of the 2015 report "Improving Sustainability and Circularity of European Food Waste Management with a Life Cycle Approach". It focuses...

This document provides an overview of the structure and content of the product and process environmental factsheets available on the Bioeconomy Observatory web pages. These factsheets are divided into three groups that reflect the three pillars of the bioeconomy: (1) food & feed, (2) industrial...

The present document compiles the main outputs of the environmental sustainability assessment in the framework of the Bioeconomy Observatory as at the end of 2014. The selection includes fourteen environmental sustainability factsheets and a brief explanatory document that provides an overview...

In the past years, several research initiatives have been promoted in the area of food waste. Many of these were focused on the identification of key drivers of food wastage and on the quantification of food waste generation. While these initiatives provided fairly accurate information over...

In the past years, several research initiatives have been promoted in the area of food waste. Many of these were focused on the identification of key drivers of food wastage and on the quantification of food waste generation. While these initiatives provided fairly accurate information over...

The security of supply of raw materials has become a high-priority theme in the political agenda of the European Union (EU). The European Commission has started to take action in order to ensure access to resources and avoid supply shortages. Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) have been identified...

'The bioeconomy [...] encompasses the production of renewable biological resources and the conversion of these resources and waste streams into value-added products, such as food, feed, bio-based products and bioenergy.' This notion of the bioeconomy was formulated in the European Commission's...

'The bioeconomy [...] encompasses the production of renewable biological resources and the conversion of these resources and waste streams into value-added products, such as food, feed, bio-based products and bioenergy.' This notion of the bioeconomy was formulated in the European Commission's...