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Wrap Up. What we’re wasting, why we’re wasting it, and what we can do about it Mike von Massow. Residential Food Waste. We did Audits of all waste put to the curb Only a portion of consumer waste Plate waste Meals carried from home Home composting Garburators

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  1. Wrap Up What we’re wasting, why we’re wasting it, and what we can do about it Mike von Massow

  2. Residential Food Waste • We did • Audits of all waste put to the curb • Only a portion of consumer waste • Plate waste • Meals carried from home • Home composting • Garburators • Surveys on attitudes and behaviours • Develop an understanding of what causes waste in the home

  3. Residential Food Waste • Average household generates 3.5-4.5 kg of food waste per week • 53% avoidable • 11% possibly avoidable • 36% unavoidable • Waste is highly variable – lots of difference between houses

  4. Fruits and Veg’s • 50%-60% of total • 0.27-3.9Kg kg per day • 40% of this unavoidable • Not strong correlationbetween avoidable andunavoidable • High frequency • 70% of avoidable total

  5. Others • Meat and Fish 0.05 kg per day • 8% of total • 55% avoidable – more than half of households • Dairy and Eggs 0.03 kg per day • 5% of total • 70% avoidable – lower frequency

  6. Others • Cereals and grains 0.08 kg per day13% of total 100% avoidable -high frequency • Other 0.09 kg per day • 70% unavoidable – high frequency • Often in garbage stream

  7. How do you decide what to discard?

  8. The Waste Aware • Higher awareness of waste • More sophisticated thinking • Less types of waste/simple measures for waste • Worried about waste • Feel guilty about waste • Find it convenient to deal with waste • Produce less waste

  9. The Food Aware • Much more connected to food • Appreciation or concern for food • Special diet • Compost • Nutrition labels • Produce Less Waste

  10. Convenience Driven • Waste less of a concern • Eat more processed food • Actually less organic waste at home but . . . • More recyclables • Eat out more • Buy groceries and throw them away

  11. The Frantic Family • Higher levels of waste • And more likely to “cheat” • Often aware of waste and feel bad but can’t do better • More likely to shop at big box stores • More likely to do big shops • Often eat out because of kid’s schedule

  12. A Couple of Key Learnings • Smaller unit of analysis is better • We should strive to have consistent definition and terminology to improve comparability • Work to understand the sources of variability

  13. Thank you! • Happy to answer questions • mvonmass@uoguelph.ca • @mikevonmassow

  14. Wrap Up

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