Jinita Waghmare

4560

This intervention aims at analysing the existing food waste processing system in Vadodara. Hotels, restaurant wastes and vegetable market waste is been majorly catered by VMC with monthly collection charges and is directly transported to Jambua landfill without processing and treatment of the bio-degradable waste. In the overall process of food waste management, the main processing stage is missing, which is important for the reduction of negative environmental impact and wastage of rich raw material which are presently being dumped into landfills. Environmental impacts of food waste in landfills are far greater than of packaging in landfills. In fact, food waste is 5 times more impactful in a landfill than packaging waste. Food waste in landfills creates methane gas, which is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than CO2. All the resources that go into growing, producing, and shipping food is wasted if it’s not consumed and thrown away. Hence to avoid, overfilling of landfill site, it is necessary to manage food waste in the city.