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Grown and thrown: Exploring approaches to estimate food waste in EU countries
Resources, Conservation and Recycling ( IF 13.2 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105426
Carla Caldeira , Valeria De Laurentiis , Agneta Ghose , Sara Corrado , Serenella Sala

National studies on food waste quantification in EU countries present highly discrepant results due to the different quantification approaches adopted. The European Commission has published a delegated act establishing a common methodology and minimum quality requirements for the uniform measurement of food waste generated in Member States. Nevertheless, as EU countries are at different levels of development and implementation of national strategies for food waste quantification, there is a need to develop a harmonized modelling system that enables the estimation of food waste generated by Member States to assess the amounts reported by each country. The aim of this paper is to fulfil this need by presenting two modelling approaches to estimate food waste in EU countries. One approach is based on Material Flow Analysis (MFA) and combines statistical information on the production and trade of food products with food waste coefficients. The other approach is based on the estimation of food waste based on waste statistics. Three EU countries are used to illustrate the two approaches and compare the results obtained thereby. Food waste estimates from waste statistics are generally lower than those obtained using MFA, in particular at the early stages of the food chain. The MFA model presented in this article is the first of its kind developed to estimate food waste across Member States in a consistent way and through time. Crucially, this could support the definition of a baseline and binding targets to reduce food waste across the EU, as announced in the EU Farm to Fork Strategy.



中文翻译:

种植和扔掉:探索估算欧盟国家食物浪费的方法

由于采用了不同的量化方法,欧盟国家中有关食物垃圾量化的国家研究结果差异很大。欧盟委员会发布了一项授权法案,确立了统一方法和最低质量要求,以统一计量成员国产生的食物垃圾。然而,由于欧盟国家处于不同的发展水平并执行国家食品垃圾量化策略,因此有必要开发一个统一的建模系统,以估算成员国产生的食品垃圾以评估每个国家报告的数量。本文的目的是通过提出两种估算欧盟国家食品浪费的建模方法来满足这一需求。一种方法是基于物质流分析(MFA),并将有关食品生产和贸易的统计信息与食物浪费系数结合在一起。另一种方法是根据废物统计数据估算食物浪费。三个欧盟国家被用来说明这两种方法并比较由此获得的结果。从废物统计中得出的食物浪费估计值通常低于使用MFA获得的估计值,尤其是在食物链的早期阶段。本文介绍的MFA模型是第一个此类模型,用于以一致的方式和时间估算整个成员国的食物浪费。至关重要的是,这可以支持定义基线和具有约束力的目标,以减少整个欧盟的食物浪费,正如欧盟从农场到叉子的战略所宣布的那样。

更新日期:2021-02-01
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