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FSB1 – 2004<br />

Food Science and Biotechnology in Developing Countries<br />

Turning Waste into Profit:<br />

Vegetable Residues as a Valuable Processing Stream<br />

Guenther Laufenberg<br />

Department of Food Technology, University Bonn, Roemerstr.164, 53117 Bonn, Germany<br />

g.laufenberg@uni-bonn.de<br />

Abstract:<br />

Waste can contain many reusable substances of high value. Based on a holistic concept of food<br />

production a need statement is visualized for the vegetable industry; recording occurrence, quantity<br />

and utilization of the residual products. The synchronization of all material streams in food processing<br />

enables the industry to produce new products with own net product value. Hence value is added to the<br />

residues and a reduction of investment and raw material costs is achieved.<br />

Keywords:<br />

Upgrading, sustainability concept, bioadsorbents, food flavors, multifunctional food ingredients<br />

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community.<br />

It is wrong when it tends to do otherwise.<br />

(Aldo Leopold)<br />

Food and Agricultural industry produce large amounts of solid and liquid <strong>org</strong>anic residues, most of<br />

which is currently disposed or used on a low technological and economical level. The scale of the<br />

problem is illustrated by looking at the total amounts of waste materials produced by different<br />

countries. Table 1 is a list of waste quantities mentioned in the literature.<br />

Table 1: Waste quantities in different countries (selection)<br />

Country/state Quantity and waste type<br />

Germany (1997) [1]<br />

Belgium (1992) [3]<br />

380,000 t/a <strong>org</strong>anic waste only from potato, vegetable and fruit processing<br />

1,954,000 t/a spent malt and hobs (breweries)<br />

1,800,000 t/a grape pomace (viniculture)<br />

3,000,000 t/a crude fiber residues (sugar production)<br />

Spain (1997) [4] >250,000 t/a olive pomace<br />

100,000 t of wet apple pomace (≅ 25,000 t dry apple pomace) remain if 400,000<br />

t of apples are processed into apple juice [2]<br />

105,000 t/a biowaste (vegetable, garden and fruit waste)<br />

280,000 t/a estimations due to legislation of separate household collection<br />

EEC (1996) [5] 14,000,000 t/a sugar beet pulp (dry matter!)<br />

Thailand (1993) [6]<br />

palm oil production<br />

386,930 t/a empty fruit bunches<br />

165,830 t/a palm press fiber<br />

110,550 t/a palm kernel shells<br />

1,000,000 t/a cassava pulp (1994, [7])

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