Life cycle assessment of a new feed production obtained by wasted flour food collected from the distribution and retail phases

Every year in Emilia Romagna more than 10000 tons of food are wasted during the retail and distribution phase. Landfill is nowadays the most adopted end of life, but working on a specific sorting system it would be possible to separate food from packaging and recover both of them in the most preferable way. In this case, Food Waste could be valorized by means of different technologies, such as anaerobic digestion, composting, and animal feed production. In this study the environmental performance of two Food Waste valorization scenarios using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology has been analyzed. For both scenarios the Floor Food Products Fraction, like bread, pasta and biscuits, was valorized to produce animal feed. The environmental impacts of these new scenarios were compared with the impacts caused by the traditional feed production. The new scenarios lead to benefit for all the considered impact categories.