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According to REDUCE project, which produced the first baseline dataset for Italy based on official EU methodological framework, food waste is 530 g per person per week at household stage (only edible fraction); food waste in school canteens corresponds to 586 g per pupil per week; retail food waste per capita, per year corresponds to 2.9 kg.
Project Wasteless is the national level food waste prevention programme of Hungary, part of the European and global food loss and food waste prevention initiative, a member organisation of the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste. [1] Project Wasteless was launched by the National Food Chain Safety Office in 2016 with the co-funding [2] of ...
The U.N. Environment Programme's Food Waste Index Report, published Wednesday, tracks the progress of countries to halve food waste by 2030. Researchers analyzed country data on households, food ...
A 2016 USDA map. According to the Medley Food Desert Project, in 2017, nearly 24 million Americans lived in food deserts. [7] Food deserts are heavily concentrated in southern states, which correlates with concentration of poverty, including the south's Black belt. The map shows the percentage of people without cars living in areas with no ...
Household use survey methods typically include food accounts, inventories, and list recalls which are used to account for all food used in the household during a survey period. [3] Limitations of household use surveys are that they do not include food consumed outside of the household, food waste is often not accounted for and consumption by ...
However, according to the digital personal finance company SoFi, the average American household spends a whopping $607.67 monthly on groceries, per recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data.
Waste may be defined differently in legislation and regulations of the federal government or individual states. Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations dealing with protection of the environment contains at least four different definitions of waste at sections 60.111b, 61.341, 191.12 and 704.83.
Electronic waste or e-waste describes discarded electrical or electronic devices. Used electronics which are destined for reuse, resale, salvage, recycling, or disposal are also considered e-waste. Informal processing of e-waste in developing countries can lead to adverse human health effects and environmental pollution.