Identification of food waste conversion barriers

The REFRESH report ‘Food waste prevention and valorisation: relevant EU policy areas’ (D3.3) analysed the policy context, specifically current EU policies and regulations, in the field of tension between demand for sustainability, safe and healthy food supply and resource efficiency. This report integrates the view on actual barriers and opportunities for the intended valorisation option. As concluded in D3.3, current legislation heavily limits the use of side and waste streams containing animal products, in animal feeds. This document explores how such valorisation would be possible within the intended effect of legislation (actually intending to prevent unacceptable risks). Furthermore, we elaborate which factors are dominant in the economic model, and factors that may affect stakeholders’ (from consumers to producers) acceptance.