Achnowledgements This research is financed by FORMAS and this paper builts on earlier
studies including different perspectives: “systems perspective” [7], “technological innovation
system” [8] and “life cycle assessment” [13, 14]. The authors greatfully acknowledge the Swedish
Research Council Formas for financing this research (FORMAS project no 211-2013-70), as well
as Ragn Sells AB for kindly providing the mixed food waste and production facility data.
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Food waste—Challenges and Opportunities for the emerging Bio-Economy, Journal of
Cleaner Production, 2017.
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studies including different perspectives: “systems perspective” [7], “technological innovation
system” [8] and “life cycle assessment” [13, 14]. The authors greatfully acknowledge the Swedish
Research Council Formas for financing this research (FORMAS project no 211-2013-70), as well
as Ragn Sells AB for kindly providing the mixed food waste and production facility data.
References
1. FAO, Global food losses—Extent, causes and prevention. Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations FAO, ISBN 978-92-5-107205-9, Rome, 2011.
2. US Department of Energy, Top value assed chemicals from biomass. Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy, US Department of Energy, 2004.
3. Choi S, Song C.W, Shin J.H, Lee S.Y, Biorefineries for the production of top building
block chemicals and their derivatives. Journal of Metabolic Engineering, Vol. 28, 2015,
pp. 223–239.
4. FORMAS, Swedish Research and Innovation Strategy for a Bio-based Economy. Report No
3, Swedish Research Council Formas, 2012.
5. Avfall Sverige, Hushållsavfall i siffor—Kommun- och länsstatistik. Rapport no 33. Avfall
Sverige, 2016.
6. Rosander E, Svedendahl Humble M, Veide A, Municipal solid waste as carbon and energy
source for Escherichia coli. Journal of Advances in Waste Management and Recycling, Vol.
1, Issue 2, 2016, pp. 2–8.
7. Rex E, Rosander E, Royne F, Veide A, Ulmanen J, A systems perspective on chemical
production from mixed food waste: The case of bio-succinate in Sweden. Journal of Resource,
Conservation and Recycling, Vol. 125, 2017, pp 86–97.
8. Ulmanen J, Rex E, Torén J, Prospecting development of sustainable innovation in a context of
multiple technology systems: The case of high platform chemicals from food waste. IST
Conference at SPRU, Brighton, 2015.
9. RagnSells, Technical information and data on the Heljestorp biogas facility. Internal
document. Ragnsells AB, 2016.
10. Sun Z, Li M, Qi Q, Gao C, Lin C.S.K, Mixed food waste as renewable feedstock in succinic
acid fermentation. Journal of Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Vol. 174, Issue 5,
2014, pp. 1822–1833.
11. Cok B, Tsiropoulos I, Roes A.L., Patel M.K., Succinic acid production derived from
carbohydrates: An energy and greenhouse gas assesment of a platform chemcial towards
a bio-based economy. Journal of Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, Vol. 8, 2014,
pp. 16–29.
12. Smidt M, Den Hollander J, Bosch H, Xiang Y, Van Der Graaf M, Lambin A, Duda, J-P, Life
Cycle Assessment of Bio-based and Fossil Based Succinic Acis. In: Sustainability Assessment
of Renewables-Based Products: Methods and Case Studies. Chichester, UK: John Wiley &
Sons, Ltd., 2015.
13. Carlsson E., The future of food waste—LCA of existing and emerging routes to bio-based
chemicals. Master thesis at Energy and Environment, Report nr 2016:8, Chalmers University
of Technology, 2016.
14. Brunklaus B, Rex E, Berlin J, The future of Swedish food waste: An environmental
assessment of existing and prospective valorization techniques. Accepted in Special Issue:
Food waste—Challenges and Opportunities for the emerging Bio-Economy, Journal of
Cleaner Production, 2017.
334
B. Brunklaus et al.