Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40069359›Full record

ArticleNature food2025

Food waste used as a resource can reduce climate and resource burdens in agrifood systems.

Yingcheng Wang, Hao Ying, Darko Stefanovski, Gerald C Shurson, Ting Chen, Zihan Wang, Yulong Yin, Huifang Zheng, Tomoaki Nakaishi, Ji Li and 2 more

Abstract read
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Nature food, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Review
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Yingcheng Wang *State Key Laboratory of Nutrient Use and Management, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
Hao Ying *State Key Laboratory of Nutrient Use and Management, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
Darko StefanovskiDepartment of Clinical Studies-New Bolton Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Kennett Square, PA, USA.
Gerald C ShursonDepartment of Animal Science, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7095-4799
Ting ChenSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6838-3621
Zihan WangState Key Laboratory of Nutrient Use and Management, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
Yulong YinState Key Laboratory of Nutrient Use and Management, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
Huifang ZhengState Key Laboratory of Nutrient Use and Management, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
Tomoaki NakaishiFaculty of Economics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9199-7480
Ji LiOrganic Recycling Research Institute, China Agricultural University, Suzhou, China.
Zhenling CuiState Key Laboratory of Nutrient Use and Management, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China. cuizl@cau.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5419-3771
Zhengxia DouDepartment of Clinical Studies-New Bolton Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Kennett Square, PA, USA. douzheng@vet.upenn.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9727-4750

Funding

Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation) LY22E080009
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Global food loss and waste continues to increase despite efforts to reduce it. Food waste causes a disproportionally large carbon footprint and resource burdens, which require urgent action to transition away from a disposal-dominated linear system to a circular bioeconomy of recovery and reuse of valuable resources. Here, using data from field-based studies conducted under diverse conditions worldwide, we found collective evidence that composting, anaerobic digestion and repurposing food waste to animal feed (re-feed) result in emission reductions of about 1 tCO

Indexed as

AgricultureWaste ManagementAnimal FeedAnimalsCarbon FootprintChinaCompostingEuropean UnionFertilizersFoodFood Loss and WasteRecyclingUnited StatesWaste Disposal FacilitiesFertilizersFood Loss and Waste

Identifiers

PMID40069359

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.