Food industry waste biorefineries

Abstract Huge amount of food waste (FW) is turning into a worldwide concern. The food-processing industry creates enormous volumes of wastes, both solids and liquids, generated from the production, preparation, and consumption of food. The utilization of FW as feedstock in biorefineries is in the starting phase of progression, and a number of studies are surveying its financial feasibility at a large scale. The source of the waste is also classified into agricultural waste, FW, and municipal waste. Here we focus on the creations of economic value from complex organic wastes, for example, FW. The use of FW in biorefineries is anticipated as a potential system to add to the achievement of the required targets and, in the meantime, to decrease the usage of both fossil and bio-based resources, supporting the change to a circular bioeconomy. FW biorefinery idea includes (1) evaluating the available quantities of FW to be utilized as feedstock; (2) due to the low innovation availability level of this sort of biorefinery, a screening technique to evaluate the speculation and assembling costs. This chapter covers the interaction of FW with biorefineries and recycling, and reuse of FW.