ABM 620 FOOD BUSINESS MANAGEMENT (1+1)

FOOD WASTE
MANAGEMENT
SOWMIYAA S (2018600113)
Agenda for Today
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
- What is food waste management?
- Food loss Vs Food Waste
- Global & Indian statistics
- Causes & Effects
- Efforts to reduce FWL
- Products from food waste
- Organizations
Throwing away food is like
stealing from the table of those
who are poor and hungry.

POPE FRANCIS
What is food waste?
Food waste can be defined as ‘any
potential source of food that has
knowingly been discarded or
destroyed,’ e.g., food discarded in
factories, food not sold in shops or
restaurants, kitchen scraps, and plate FOOD LOSS VS FOOD
waste. WASTE

 Encyclopedia of Food Sciences and

Nutrition (Second Edition), 2003
FOOD LOSS
- The decrease in quantity or
quality of food.
- Production and distribution
segments of the food supply
chain

FOOD WASTE
- a component of food loss) is any removal of food
- which has spoiled or expired, mainly caused by
economic behaviour, poor stock management or
neglect.

UN's Save Food initiative, the FAO, UNEP, and stakeholders

CLASSIFICATION OF FOOD WASTE
FOOD WASTE FACTS
FWL of 1.3bn tonnes - enough to feed 3 billion people.
 US$ 680 bn in industrialized countries & US$ 310 bn in developing
countries

Industrialized and developing countries – respectively

670 and 630 million tonnes.
Fruits and vegetables, plus roots and tubers have the highest
wastage rates 

88 million tonnes of food - wasted annually in the EU

estimated at 143 billion Euros.
Food waste facts
By 2050 the world population will reach 9 billion.
Europe could feed 200 million people.

Latin America could feed 300 million people.

Africa could feed 300 million people.

1/4th of the food currently lost or wasted globally saved

- enough to feed 870 mn hungry people in the world.
Food waste facts

Source : FAO
Food waste facts
Every year, consumers in rich countries waste (222 mt)
as the entire net food production of sub-Saharan Africa
(230 mt).
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the post harvest food losses are estimated to
worth of US$ 4 billion per year – or enough to feed at least 48 million
people.

Food losses during harvest and in storage - lost income

for small farmers & higher prices for poor consumers.
Equivalent to more than half of the world’s annual cereals crop (2,3 bt
in 2009/2010).
Food waste facts
Per capita waste by consumers : 95-115 kg a year in
Europe and North America,
In sub-Saharan Africa, south and south-eastern Asia,it is
6-11 kg a year.
Major squandering of resources, including water, land, energy,
labour and capital - GHG , global warming and climate change.

In developing countries 40% post-harvest and processing

industrialized countries >40% of losses - retail and
consumer levels.
At retail level - quality standards that over-emphasize appearance.
Food waste facts
In developing countries - early stages of the food
value chain
In medium- and high-income countries - later stages in the
supply chain.

SDG of UN - sept 2015, 12.3: By 2030, halve per capita

global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and
reduce food losses along production and supply chains,
including post-harvest losses
 Food waste facts
The EU and Member States are committed to meeting
the UN(SDG), adopted in September 2015
In September, 2015, in alignment with UN SDG 12.3, the USDA
and EPA announced the first ever domestic goal to reduce USA’s
food loss and waste by half by the year 2030.

Sources: FAO, European Commission, EU FUSIONS, USDA , United States EPA , World Resources
Institute, The Danish (EPA)
Food wastage crisis- India
67 million tonnes - valued at around `92,000 crores;
enough to feed all of Bihar for a year
Annually, close to 21 mn mt of wheat rots in India - Australia’s
total annual production
According to the BMC, Mumbai generates close to 9,400
metric tonnes of solid waste per day, from which 73% is
food, vegetable, and fruit waste, while only 3% is
plastic.
The garbage dumps in Mumbai are as tall as five or six
storey buildings
Food wastage crisis- India
Delhi generates around 9000 metric tonnes of waste
per day, with the country’s largest landfill located in
East Delhi.

This landfill is 70 acres vast and contains close to 12

million tonnes of waste that are as high as 50 feet.

Source : Clean India Journal - Editor May 12, 2018

Food wastage crisis- India
‘The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the world,
2017’ report (FAO), 190.7 million people are
undernourished in India.
14.5% of the Indian population - largest undernourished
population in the world.

40% of the food produced in India is wasted or lost.

This cost India one lakh crore rupees every year.(UN)

India wastes Rs 244 crore worth of
food a day: Report
India's rank in Global Hunger Index is 100 among
119 countries.

ET BUREAU, JAN 08, 2018

Wasted wheat produce: 21 million tonne

Worth of food wasted in India per year: Rs 88,800 crore

Food needed to feed India’s population: 225-230 mt per year

Worth of food wasted per day: Rs 244

Farm output in 2015-16: 270 million tonne

Indians going hungry daily: 194 million

 Farm output in 2015-16: 270 mt

Indians going hungry daily: 194 million

Percentage of total food wasted a year: 40%

Post-harvest losses: Rs 1 lakh crore

India’s rank in Global Hunger Index 100 among 119 countries

Sources: Reuters
 India Wastes As Much
Food As United Kingdom
Consumes: Study
BUSINESS WORLD - MAY 28, 2019
$43.3 billion
Source : FAO
Major causes of FLW - developed
countries

EXCESS FAIRNESS
Producing larger quantities of The cost of discarding products
food than is needed is cheaper than using or re-using

CONSUMER CARE
STANDARDS Supermarkets carry large
High consumer ‘appearance quantities and varieties of
quality standards’ products
Major causes of FLW - developing
countries
INFRASTRUCTURE
POOR HANDLING
poor storage facilities, including
loss of quality, nutritional value
cold storage, and lack of
and profit.
infrastructure

MARKETING
PROCESSING Insufficient market facilities that
Not enough processing facilities provide acceptable storage and
retail conditions.
Consequences of food loss
and waste on sustainable
food systems
ECONOMIC,ENVIRONMENTAL,SOCIAL
FOOD LOSS AND WASTE ALONG THE SUPPLY CHAIN
ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES
ENVIRONMENTAL
CONSEQUENCES

NUTRITIONAL
CONSEQUENCES
 THE
WATER
WE
CAN'T
SEE!
 THE
WATER
WE
CAN'T
SEE!
THE HIDDEN RESOURCES

A total of 1.4 bn ha of land was needed to grow the amount of

food that is annually wasted, an area three times the size of the
European Union!

750 billion – 1 trillion dollars are thrown away each year

But if we count the value of the environment that has been

destroyed to make the food we throw away, then we can add an
additional 700 billion dollars to the bill.
THE HIDDEN RESOURCES

The carbon footprint of wasted food is 3.3 Gt of greenhouse

gases annually.

One apple alone requires 125 l to grow. If we order a 200 g

chicken steak for lunch, we are asking the waiter for 865 l of
water.

If the meat is instead beef, we are asking for 3,083 l of water,

which is enough to grow 10 kg of potatoes.

Food in landfills releases methane when it starts rotting

Efforts to reduce FLW
AROUND THE WORLD
Around the world

FINES & PENALTY RECYCLING

A 2016 food waste law in France - Since 2001, a food recycling law in Japan
$4,500 U.S.. sets recycling targets for businesses

MARKETING TO
SUPPLY SHORTFALLS
CONSUMER NEEDS
Presentations are communication tools
Presentations are communication tools
that can be used.
that can be used.
 EFFORTS TO REDUCE FWL

MARKETS FOR CORPORATE TECHNOLOGICAL

IMPERFECT PLEDGES AND INNOVATIONS
AND “UGLY” ACTIVITIES
PRODUCE
 TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS
SOME OF THE MOBILE APPS

G OOD R FOOD COWB OY OL IO US D A

FOOD KEEPER
CURBING FOOD FLW
Organisation-level initiatives

FOOD RETAILER ENDING QUANTITY-

COMMITMENT BASED DISCOUNTS

LEGAL REMEDIES
COMMERCIAL
KITCHEN SOLUTIONS

ENCOURAGE DOGGY
BAGS

World Biogas Association - 2018

Regulatory initiatives

GOOD SAMARITAN TAX CREDITS AND TAX

DEDUCTIONS FOR
LAW
FOOD REDISTRIBUTION

LEGAL REMEDIES
FOOD DATE BANNING OF
LABELLING ORGANIC WASTE TO
LANDFILLS

SUPERMARKET FOOD
WASTE RECOVERY PAY-AS-YOU-THROW (PAYT)
REQUIREMENT
World Biogas Association - 2018
Technologies that treat separately-
collected food waste
Anaerobic
Digestion

Composting

Liquefaction
PAY-AS-YOU-THROW (PAYT)
Rendering
World Biogas Association - 2018
Technologies that treat non-
separated food waste
Mechanical Biological
Gasification
Treatment (MBT)

Incineration with
energy recovery Pyrolysis
LEGAL REMEDIES

Landfill without gas

collection
PAY-AS-YOU-THROW (PAYT)
Landfill with gas
collection
World Biogas Association - 2018
Cool initiatives that are slashing
food waste
Social
Redeeming ugly food
supermarkets

Legal remedies
Food For Free

Food waste cafes

mnn.com
Quantification and
characterisation of food
waste
THE FOOD WASTE AND
LOSS PROTOCOL
Food Loss and Waste
Accounting and Reporting Standard
(FLW Standard)
Products made from food waste
Toast Ale: Beer, ReGrained: Healthy
brewed from old snacks, made from
bread brewery waste

RUBIES IN THE RUBBLE: BarstensVol: Soup from surplus

Rubies in the Rubble:
PRESERVING THE GLUT,
Preserving the glut,
AGAIN
again
Imperfect Produce:
Direct consumer sales of
Misfit Juicery: Ugly
aesthetically challenged
fruits turned into
produce
yummy drinks
mnn.com
These Companies Upcycle Food
Waste Into New Products

Agraloop
Aeropowder
Biobean
Toast Ale
Regrained
Snact
Misfit
Rubies in the Rubble
¡Yappah! - Tyson Foods - a protein crisp snack
Cereals Oilseeds Coffee Olives
Organizations
Save Food Initiative
https://www.save-food.org/

World Food Programme #RecipeForDisaster

https://cdn.wfp.org/2018/recipe-for-disaster/

USDA Food Waste Challenge

https://www.usda.gov/oce/foodwaste/
Organizations
Courtauld 2025 (United Kingdom)
http://courtauldreview.wrap.org.uk/

Further with Food

https://furtherwithfood.org/

Foodtank: the think tank for food

https://foodtank.com/news/category/food-waste/
Organizations
Love Food Hate Waste
https://lovefoodhatewaste.com/

Society of St. Andrew

http://endhunger.org/

World Resources Institute

http://www.wri.org/blog/2013/06/10-ways-cut-global-food-loss-and-waste
Organizations
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture at UC
Davis
https://horticulture.ucdavis.edu/postharvest

University of Nairobi, Implementation of evaporative

charcoal cooler and zero energy brick cooler
http://ebe.uonbi.ac.ke/content/implementation-evaporative-charcoal-cooler-
and-zero-energy-brick-cooler-embu-county
Organizations - India
Feeding India
Robin Hood Army
GiftAMealInIndia
Let’s Spread Love
Let’s Feed Bangalore
 References
GARCIA-GARCIA, G., WOOLLEY, E. and RAHIMIFARD, S.,2015. A
framework for a more efficient approach to food waste
management.International Journal of Food Engineering, 1 (1), pp.65-
72.

GLOBAL FOOD WASTE MANAGEMENT: AN IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

FOR CITIES - Full Report - World Biogas Association(2018)

matrec.com
feedingindia.com
foodtank.com
References
thecsrjournal.com
World Hunger News
Clean India Journal
Business World
Economic Times
The Hindu Business Line
India Food Banking Network
Olio.com