As the years pass by, the need to develop a sustainable world is even more urgent. A step towards this target is to adopt sustainable waste management methods as well as adopt methods to reduce the waste in a concept of circular economy. This study will examine the organic waste management in the retail sector. The food loss and waste, and especially the fruit and vegetable waste increases through the years. The fruit and vegetable waste occurs during the all the stages of the production, distribution and consumption. The absence of proper waste management causes many environmental impacts due to the production of GHG emmissions during the degradation. On the other hand, the implementation of sustainable organic waste management result to many benefits in both society and environment.
The bigger producer of this organic waste is the wholesale and the retail sector of fruit and vegetables. The grocery stores trade large volumes of fruits and vegetables and that for organic waste management should be adopted. This study will examine the fruit and vegetable waste that is produced in the Central Grocery Market of Thessaloniki. In addition, it will examine the waste management methods that are applied now and the actions that have been done towards food loss. For the aim of the study a survey and a number of interviews were contacted to the traders of the Central Grocery Market. The results will be precented and analyzed and efficient organic waste management for the retail sector will be proposed.
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