My work place has a white board showing yesterday’s food waste right above where employees keep used dishes.

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xcupcakekitten on May 11st, 2018 at 17:46 UTC »

Damn that's a lot of wasted food.

But if you have leftover untouched food at the end of the day, what do you do with it? Is it also wasted by tossed?

GeraldBWilsonJr on May 11st, 2018 at 20:39 UTC »

How much of that waste was edible I wonder

ExiledToTerminus on May 11st, 2018 at 20:58 UTC »

I did some data analytics for a company around food waste a while back and one of the problems with taking a raw measure of "food waste" and trying to use it to inform how many people it could have fed or how many meals it could have made is that a lot of "food waste" is technically edible or organic but not eaten for obvious reasons: banana and orange peels, bones and shells (e.g. from clams), fat/tendon from steak/chicken, etc.

Once we had some line workers separate out things that people actually would have eaten under normal circumstances, the real "waste" number went down by 40-50%.