Transforming Food Waste into Value Added Products: A Circular Economy Analysis of Malaysian

Food waste is recognized as a certain issue occurring globally and it is particularly severe in developed countries. This shows that there is still lacking of approaches in managing the food waste especially in fisheries sector. Fisheries based food wastes which are mainly generated during the produ...

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Main Authors: Fernando, Yudi, Fasihah, Elias, Muhammad Shabir, Shaharudin, Rajan, Jose
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2019
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spelling ump-264032019-11-11T03:23:31Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/26403/ Transforming Food Waste into Value Added Products: A Circular Economy Analysis of Malaysian Fernando, Yudi Fasihah, Elias Muhammad Shabir, Shaharudin Rajan, Jose HD Industries. Land use. Labor Food waste is recognized as a certain issue occurring globally and it is particularly severe in developed countries. This shows that there is still lacking of approaches in managing the food waste especially in fisheries sector. Fisheries based food wastes which are mainly generated during the production process could turned out to be useful according to the Circular Economy (CE) concept. As the CE concept proposed that the resource materials should be in the circularity flow, the disposal of food wastes into the landfill can be reduced and thus provides the positive outcome to the environmental, economic and societal impact. This paper basically tends to investigate the root cause of the food wastes, the effectiveness of the adoption of CE in improving the profit margin and also to provide the best practice of CE adoption. CE is analysed using the VOSviewer software, and then the t-test is performed to compare the profit margin before and after CE implementation. This resulted to the fact that CE implementation can improve the financial performance of a company by turning the fish waste into a value added product, which is fish pellet. 2019 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/26403/1/Transforming%20Food%20Waste%20into%20Value%20Added%20Products.pdf Fernando, Yudi and Fasihah, Elias and Muhammad Shabir, Shaharudin and Rajan, Jose (2019) Transforming Food Waste into Value Added Products: A Circular Economy Analysis of Malaysian. In: Proceeding of Nano-Micromaterials for Circular economy and Sustainability in the East Asia Pacific, 29 August - 1 September 2019 , National University of Singapore, Singapore. pp. 1-13..
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topic HD Industries. Land use. Labor
spellingShingle HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Fernando, Yudi
Fasihah, Elias
Muhammad Shabir, Shaharudin
Rajan, Jose
Transforming Food Waste into Value Added Products: A Circular Economy Analysis of Malaysian
description Food waste is recognized as a certain issue occurring globally and it is particularly severe in developed countries. This shows that there is still lacking of approaches in managing the food waste especially in fisheries sector. Fisheries based food wastes which are mainly generated during the production process could turned out to be useful according to the Circular Economy (CE) concept. As the CE concept proposed that the resource materials should be in the circularity flow, the disposal of food wastes into the landfill can be reduced and thus provides the positive outcome to the environmental, economic and societal impact. This paper basically tends to investigate the root cause of the food wastes, the effectiveness of the adoption of CE in improving the profit margin and also to provide the best practice of CE adoption. CE is analysed using the VOSviewer software, and then the t-test is performed to compare the profit margin before and after CE implementation. This resulted to the fact that CE implementation can improve the financial performance of a company by turning the fish waste into a value added product, which is fish pellet.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Fernando, Yudi
Fasihah, Elias
Muhammad Shabir, Shaharudin
Rajan, Jose
author_facet Fernando, Yudi
Fasihah, Elias
Muhammad Shabir, Shaharudin
Rajan, Jose
author_sort Fernando, Yudi
title Transforming Food Waste into Value Added Products: A Circular Economy Analysis of Malaysian
title_short Transforming Food Waste into Value Added Products: A Circular Economy Analysis of Malaysian
title_full Transforming Food Waste into Value Added Products: A Circular Economy Analysis of Malaysian
title_fullStr Transforming Food Waste into Value Added Products: A Circular Economy Analysis of Malaysian
title_full_unstemmed Transforming Food Waste into Value Added Products: A Circular Economy Analysis of Malaysian
title_sort transforming food waste into value added products: a circular economy analysis of malaysian
publishDate 2019
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/26403/
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/26403/1/Transforming%20Food%20Waste%20into%20Value%20Added%20Products.pdf
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