giteam OP t1_jagu07t wrote on March 1, 2023 at 9:39 AM

In this report, food waste is defined as "both the edible and inedible (bones, rind, pits/stones) substances that are used in the manufacture, preparation, or treatment of food".

One significant limitation mentioned in the report is that not every country has high-quality data on food wastage, especially those in lower-income countries. Some of these numbers could therefore be quite different from actual food waste numbers. However, the main aim of the report was to shed light on food waste as a whole, to hopefully provide a framework for countries with lower-quality data to adopt in order to track food waste more accurately in the future.

Source (data can be found in Database, while full written report can be found in Full Report)

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avoere t1_jah1bu6 wrote on March 1, 2023 at 11:20 AM

Then the report sucks and only wants to push an agenda. It does not make sense to include inedible parts as waste

alie1020 t1_jai35s0 wrote on March 1, 2023 at 4:27 PM

The "manufactur, preparation and treatment of food" really sticks out to me. For example, if an American buys a fruit cup that was packaged in Bangladesh, then the skins, seeds, rotten fruit that couldn't be packaged, etc. all gets counted as food waste in Bangladesh, right? It seems like the data would be skewed against the less developed countries which increasingly produce processed foods for first world countries.