Food Wastage
Where?
Restaurants
Households
Hostels
Events
Marriage
Banquets
Educational Institutions
School/ College Cantens
Business
Meetings
Conferences
Reasons
Taste as not expected
Extra Quantity
Poor Judgement of how hungry one is
Free Food
Not paying for the food
Buffets
A little quantity won't make any difference
Spoiled food/ Expiry of food
Effects
International food shortage
Global financial crisis
Rising food prices
Water wastage
Release of methane
Waste oils
Harms biodiversity
Different stages
Production
Processing
Storage
Retailing
Consumption
Waste management Costs
Lack of consciousness
Maintenance of landfills
Transport costs
Stocking of excessive food
During pandemic
All Age group
Solutions
Shopping malls
Excessive buying
Food corners
Given to the poor
Weigh the waste- Paying for the wasted food
All socio-economic strata
Consequences on
Food security
Environmental sustainability
Economy
Fines
More as a social currency
Shopping patterns
Shopping patterns
Photographing food
Fail to properly plan meals
People moving away from home
Lack of storage space
Nobody to eat
Forget what you have
Stuff goes off
Busier Lifestyles
Changing plans
extra hours of work
Shops dont offer loose fruits and vegetables
Online order of food
Minimum order for home delivery
Social media campaigns
low income countries
food loss during the early stages of the supply chain
medium and high income countries
food losses at the later stages of the supply chain
People can afford to waste food
Bars
Hostel mess
Diet and Health concerns
Lack of knowledge
Lack of storage
Purchased and not open products
Marketing and sales strategies by food companies
Layout of stores
Offers and promotions
Process from production to consumption
Positive activities at home
understanding the date-labels on food
planning food purchases
Unaware of the quanitty
consuming household leftovers
Open and unfinished products
Ashamed of taking the left overs
Parties
Weddings
Hospitals
Patients
Staff
Purchase
Wastage of resources used to make the food
Deforestation
Prevention of Food Wastage
Resource conservation
Food Security
Cost advantage for consumers
Opportunities
Awareness about food wastage
reducing overstock
reducing portion sizes in restaurants
Ordering the right amount
utilizing packaging and processing technologies
Keeping food fresh for longer time
Clear sell by and use by dates
Not making a shopping list
Planning
Left over food consumption pattern
may not want to risk their health by eating leftovers
Behaviour of other family members
household size
gender of the person responsible for groceries
frequency of buying discounted product
Large family more wastage
Birthdays
cake on face
Guests
more children produce more food
age of the person responsible for food preparation
higher income households waste more than poorer households
When consumers plan their (food) purchases they will waste less food
Retailers could help reduce food waste by selling in smaller quantities
Marketing communication in-store (e.g., information screens)
could help raise the consumer’s awareness regarding food waste
offered package size
food loss campaigns
Birth in family
Types of food wasted
Original food
Partly used food
Leftovers (plate waste)
Preparation residues
Grocery Stores
Cooking process
Peeling vegetables
Meat trimming
Consideration of what's healthy and what's not
Cooling and storage