Managing food industry waste [[electronic resource] ] : common sense methods for food processors / / Robert R. Zall

• Autore: Zall Robert R
• Pubblicazione: Ames, Iowa, : Blackwell Pub., 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (199 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.728; 664.00286
• Soggetto topico: Food industry and trade - Waste disposal
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : waste control philosophy -- Who is watching the store? -- Why waste flows need to be inventoried -- In-plant monitoring -- How to carry out a management scheme -- Product loss and dollar equivalents -- Improving the system -- Management tools -- Converting costs into credits -- Economics of managing food-processing waste -- Training -- Unconventional techniques to deal with waste recovery or treatment schemes -- Layman's overview of treating waste, wastewater, and solid waste -- How to seek and gain help to solve waste problems -- Self-test.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Managing Food Industry Waste: Common Sense Methods for Food Processors, waste management expert Robert Zall shares his philosophy and techniques for monitoring and accounting for food processing wastage. The text shows food processing managers how much of the waste now being generated can become a managed resource for producing economic credits. Drawing on his forty years of experience in managing waste, Zall explains how to identify the actual losses sent to drains and sewage treatment plants, how to pinpoint which unit processes generate these losses, and how to uncover hidden loss
• Titolo autorizzato: Managing food industry waste
• ISBN: 0-470-75253-X; 1-282-37127-4; 9786612371271; 0-470-75252-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910830294503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II