Fruits And Vegetable Waste Case Study

There are different strategies followed by people to save food like limited cooking, limited purchase of food items etc. This study is concentrated on how people are using the fruits and vegetable waste like peel and skin which are usually thrown to thrash. The result was a surprise because even though some people are throwing the waste to trash, many are utilizing it in a different way, they are recycling it. In this study, few people about 6 out of 20 ( show percentage) are throwing away the waste directly to the thrash which is supported by the study conducted by Parizeau et al (2015) where about 39% of respondents told they are throwing the waste to garbage. There are people who are throwing the wastes directly to trashes
Even though most of the people throw away the waste many are having good knowledge and awareness about how fruits and vegetables can be utilized in better ways. Most of them told decomposition is one of the best ways to utilize the waste because through this good fertilizer for the plant can be obtained and environmental pollution can be avoided. Others opinion includes feeding the animal and using the waste for production of biogas. One of the respondents told that fruits and vegetable which are having no good appearance but still healthy to eat is not preferred by many people, this should be shared with other people who cannot afford to buy fruits and vegetable so that nutritional need of those people will be fulfilled and food will be not
There are many reasons for non-utilization of wastes which are stated by interviewees. Respondents told as they are having no place to do decomposition of wastes they are throwing it for thrash. Decomposition is not the cup of tea for the people who are living in apartments. Lack of time and patience is another reason, for example, to prepare snacks using pumpkin seed it is cumbersome to remove the upper layer of the seeds which requires a lot of effort and time. Instalment of biogas plant requires more money which is another barrier for not utilization of waste for biogas production. Even though most of the people are aware of utilizing the waste but there are people still who are not aware of many methods by which those wastes can be utilized. Lack of interest and negligence is the other reason for not utilizing the waste. Following statements answer the question, ‘why people are not utilizing fruits and vegetable