Carbon footprint of supermarket food waste

Katharina Scholz, Mattias Eriksson and Ingrid Strid

Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 2015, vol. 94, issue C, 56-65

Abstract: Food waste is a major problem in modern society and carries considerable social, economic and environmental costs. Food production causes greenhouse gas emissions along the entire food supply chain and wasting food means that those emissions are produced in vain. There is consensus that food waste has to be reduced. For example, the EU and some of its member countries have set concrete targets to reduce the amount of waste. However, in order to achieve the overall goal of a more sustainable economy, not only quantitative but also environmental indicators have to be considered when pursuing waste reduction goals. This study analysed the discrepancies between the waste quantity and wastage carbon footprint (CF) profiles of perishable food products wasted in Swedish supermarkets.

Keywords: Greenhouse gas emissions; Food waste; Retail store; LCA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2014.11.016

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