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WRAP's recent food waste report highlights both household and business sources and highlights the environmental and financial cost.

A new platform to prevent food waste

California Integrated Waste Management Board industry study says that 63% of supermarket waste is food. The author urges more food donations from big retailers.

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Details of Singapore students' food waste project here, here and here.
Wrap to map food waste to identify "hot spots".
Each year at Californian businesses threw away six million tons of edible food. "shortcomings...at every step...along California's food distribution chain [allows] vast amounts of food to go to waste in landfills despite laws and tax incentives that encourage food donations."
American Charity Food Forward pick and redistribute unwanted fruit

The Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association (ADBA) has claimed that one of the barriers to farmers making AD technology financially viable is that some supermarkets are unwilling to buy certain food that has been grown on fields using its by-product, digestate.

LA food waste

Abel & Cole mention Arcola

A study in California finds retailers sending a lot of waste to landfill due to mishapen crops and worries to liability of donated food. A 2004 study by anthropologist Timothy Jones estimated that up to 10 percent of certain crops, such as cauliflower, never leave the field. He projected that the overall figure for crop waste in the United States is closer to 20 percent. Farmers dispute such figures, claiming much higher efficiency.

Our reliance on air-freighted fresh produce caused a lot of waste when that volcano erupted

Cardiff Transition Towns hold a food fight with some of the city's waste food

An American University has been cutting food waste in its dorms by offering three a la carte meal plans. The thinking is that when students pay each piece of food they eat, they usually waste less. The Lutheran liberal arts college estimates it has reduced its food waste by 85 to 90 percent.
Introducing ambitious Europe-wide targets for the separate collection of both food and garden waste could offer environmental and cost benefits worth more than €7billion (£6 billion) between 2013 and 2020, according to a report published as part of the European Commission's work on potential new EU bio-waste legislation.