Purpose Emerging technologies facilitate the circular economy transition by converting waste into value-added products. Environmental assessments of these technologies are increasingly gaining attention; however, scaling up remains a major challenge, leading to significant data gaps. To address this issue, this study applied an ex-ante LCA to a resource recovery solution integrated with an emerging technology, comparing three...

Summary Food is needed to maintain our physical integrity and therefore meets a most basic human need. The food sector got in the focus of environmental policy, because of its environmental implications and its inefficiency in terms of the amount of food lost along the value chain. The European Commission (EC) flagged the food waste issue a few years ago and adopted since then a series of policies that partially address the pr...