Description
Input parameters and model results of the estimation of food waste generated by EU Member States across the food supply chain
Contact
Contributors
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- Serenella Sala
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0000-0003-1919-9948
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- Valeria De Laurentiis
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0000-0001-6224-2038
How to cite
Sala, Serenella; De Laurentiis, Valeria (2023): Food waste estimates model results (model version 2.0). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/a86ae681-f051-4809-85f3-5fa0ad7b25ee
Keywords
food waste material flow analysis
Data access
Publications
- Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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Abstract
The amendment to Directive 2008/98/EC on Waste (European Parliament and of the Council, 2018) establishes an annual reporting obligation for Member States (MSs) on food waste generation, following a common methodology defined in Commission delegated decision (EU) 2019/1597. MSs were obliged to report data on food waste quantification for the reference year 2020 by June 2022. As MSs are at different levels of development of national strategies for food waste quantification, there is the need to develop a harmonized model to estimate food waste generated by MSs to assess the amounts reported. To this end, the JRC developed a model based on material flow analysis (MFA) to estimate food waste generation in MSs at food group level for the different stages of the food supply chain: primary production, processing and manufacturing, retail and distribution, households and food services consumption (De Laurentiis et al., 2021). The model also estimates food losses (i.e. crops not harvested or ploughed in, and animal mortality during transport to slaughterhouse and rejected at slaughter), by-products (i.e. surplus food used as animal feed and for non-food uses), and food consumed, which is compared with the results of nutritional surveys to perform a plausibility check of the results of the model. Due to a number of methodological updates presented in this report a new version of the model (version 2.0) is released and its results are presented and discussed. In this update results are provided for the years 2003-2020.
Geographic areas
Temporal coverage
| From date | To date |
|---|---|
| 2003-01-01 | 2020-12-31 |
Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2023-07-13
- Modified date
- 2024-05-24
- Issued date
- 2023-07-13
- Data theme(s)
- Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Environment
- Update frequency
- irregular
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/a86ae681-f051-4809-85f3-5fa0ad7b25ee
- Popularity
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