https://doi.org/10.4081/ijfs.2011.829

THE USE OF DISPOSABLE TABLEWARE IN SCHOOL CATERING: CONSIDERATIONS ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

Vol. 1 No. 1zero (2011)
Submitted: 4 January 2013
Accepted: 4 January 2013
Published: 8 January 2011
life-cycle energy analysis, public catering, disposable tableware
Abstract Views: 1189
PDF: 2069
Publisher's note
All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.

Authors

C. Balzaretti
lucia.zoppi@pagepress.org
Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Veterinarie per la Sicurezza Alimentare – Università di Milano, Italy.
R. Boasso
Libero Professionista, Italy.
M.A. Marzano
Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Veterinarie per la Sicurezza Alimentare – Università di Milano, Italy.
The growing demand for food safety guarantees is increasingly accompanied by the interest towards food and environmental-friendly processes and thus the quality of life. This paper gives practical considerations on the use of reusable and disposable tableware in public catering facilities, and shows the results of scientific studies of Life-cycle energy analyses conducted in the U.S.A. and in a large city in Northern Italy.

Dimensions

Altmetric

PlumX Metrics

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Citations

Crossref
Scopus
Google Scholar
Europe PMC

How to Cite

1.
Balzaretti C, Boasso R, Marzano M. THE USE OF DISPOSABLE TABLEWARE IN SCHOOL CATERING: CONSIDERATIONS ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY. Ital J Food Safety [Internet]. 2011 Jan. 8 [cited 2024 Aug. 24];1(1zero):11-4. Available from: https://www.pagepressjournals.org/ijfs/article/view/ijfs.2011.1S.11

PAGEPress has chosen to apply the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) to all manuscripts to be published.