Thursday, October 22, 2015

Food Waste Information

Question

I'm looking for information on food-related waste in restaurants and households; things such as:

-spoiled or uneaten food that has to be discarded;

-excess packaging or containers that are non-recyclable


Answer

Try these:

Composting by households in Canada
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/16-002-x/2013001/article/11848-eng.htm

Households and the Environment Survey
Detailed tables from CANSIM

http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/COR-COR/COR-COR/objList?lang=eng&srcObjType=SDDS&srcObjId=3881&tgtObjType=ARRAY

And a few other possible areas to check (you would have to double check to see how recent these are):
http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/COR-COR/COR-COR/objList?lang=eng&srcObjType=SDDS&srcObjId=3881&tgtObjType=STUDIES