• Food Waste Monitor
  • Acknowledgements
  • Overview
  • Farm Methodology
  • Manufacturing Methodology
  • Retail Methodology
  • Foodservice Methodology
  • Residential Methodology
  • Works Cited
  • Appendix
• Acknowledgements
  • Contract Partners & Data Contributors
  • Thank You To Our Funders
• Overview of Food Waste Monitor
  • Food Waste Monitor
    • Roadmap to 50% Reduction by 2030
    • New and More Granular Information
    • Interactivity and Automation
    • Transparency
    • Research Opportunities
    • Adaptable Framework
• Farm Methodology
  • Scope Boundary
  • Calculations
    • Surplus Food Calculations
    • Cause Calculations
    • Destination Calculations
  • Data Sources and Limitations
    • Planted and Harvested Acreage, Yield, and Market Price
    • Never Harvested (Walk-by) Causes
    • Maturity of Fields Never Harvested
    • Yield Left Behind After Harvest
    • Processing Rates Versus Fresh Market
    • Field Packing Rates
    • Packhouse Loss Rates
    • Buyer Rejection Rates
    • Left Behind After Harvest Causes
    • Packhouse Loss Causes
    • Packhouse Loss Destinations
    • Buyer Rejection Destinations
  • Data Quality Evaluation
• Manufacturing Methodology
  • Scope Boundary
  • Calculations
    • Surplus Food Calculations
    • Cause Calculations
    • Destination Calculations
  • Data Sources and Limitations
    • National Value Shipped
    • Retail Markup
    • Retail Price per Lb
    • Employees
    • Unshipped Product Rates
    • Buyer Rejection Rates
    • Recipes
    • Ingredient Utilization Rates
    • Wholesale Ingredient Prices
    • Unutilized Ingredient Destinations
    • Unshipped Product Destinations
    • Retail Rejection Destinations
  • Data Quality Evaluation
• Retail Methodology
  • Scope Boundary
  • Calculations
    • Unsold Food Calculations
    • Cause Calculations
    • Destination Calculations
  • Data Sources and Limitations
    • Retail Value and Tons Sold
    • Unsold Food Rates
    • Unsold Food Causes
    • Unsold Food Destinations
  • Data Quality Evaluation
• Foodservice Methodology
  • Scope Boundary
  • Calculations
    • Surplus Food Calculations
    • Cause Calculations
    • Destination Calculations
  • Data Sources and Limitations
    • National Foodservice Purchases and Sales
    • State Restaurant Locations and Employee Counts for Non-Restaurant Segments
    • Wholesale Price per Lb
    • Pre-Consumer Surplus Rates
    • Food Type Breakdown
    • Distribution Channels (Dine in vs Takeout vs Catering)
    • Plate Waste Rates
    • Catering Overproduction Rates
    • Pre-Consumer Surplus Causes
    • Pre-Consumer Surplus Destinations
    • Plate Waste Destinations
    • Catering Overproduction Destinations
  • Data Quality Evaluation
• Residential Methodology
  • Scope Boundary
  • Calculations
    • Surplus Food Calculations
    • Cause Calculations
    • Destination Calculations
  • Data Sources and Limitations
    • Retail Value and Tons Purchased at Grocery Stores
    • Food Obtained from Grocery Stores vs Elsewhere
    • Residential Food Surplus Rates
    • Residential Food Surplus Causes
    • Residential Food Surplus Destinations
  • Data Quality Evaluation
• Works Cited
• Appendix
  • Appendix A: Farm Yield Left Behind After Harvest
  • Appendix B: Farm Field Packing Rates for Fresh Market Produce
  • Appendix C: Buyer Rejection Rates
  • Appendix D: Causes of Fields Never Harvested (Walk-by Fields)
  • Appendix E: Causes of Yield Left Behind After Harvest
  • Appendix F: Causes of Packhouse Losses
  • Appendix G: Destinations of Packhouse Losses
  • Appendix H: Retail Margins
  • Appendix I: Unshipped Product Rates and Ingredient Utilization Rates
  • Appendix J: Destinations of Manufacturing Surplus
  • Appendix K: Retail Unsold Food Rates: USDA Supermarket Shrink Estimates
  • Appendix L: Retail Unsold Food Rates: FMI Supermarket Security and Loss Prevention Report
  • Appendix M: Causes of Retail Surplus
  • Appendix N: Destinations of Retail Surplus
  • Appendix O: Foodservice Food Type Breakdown and Wholesale Prices
  • Appendix P: Plate Waste Rates
  • Appendix Q: Catering Overproduction Rates
  • Appendix R: Causes of Foodservice Pre-Consumer Surplus
  • Appendix S: Destinations of Foodservice Pre-Consumer Surplus
  • Appendix T: Destinations of Foodservice Plate Waste
  • Appendix U: Destinations of Foodservice Catering Overproduction
  • Appendix V: % of Food Obtained From Grocery Stores
  • Appendix W: Residential Surplus Rates
  • Appendix X: Causes of Residential Surplus
  • Appendix Y: Destinations of Residential Surplus
  • Appendix Z: Landfill and Incineration Rates
  • Appendix AA: Data Quality Rubric
• Solutions Database
  • Acknowledgements
  • Overview
  • Tons Diversion Potential
  • Net Financial Benefit
  • GHG Reduction Potential
  • Water Savings Potential
  • Meal Equivalents
  • Job Creation Potential
  • Works Cited
  • Appendix
• Acknowledgements
  • Contract Partners & Data Contributors
  • Thank You To Our Funders
• Overview of Solutions Database
  • Solutions Database
    • NOTICE AN ISSUE WITH THE DATA?
• Tons Diversion Potential
• Net Financial Benefit
• GHG Reduction Potential
• Water Savings Potential
• Meal Equivalents
• Job Creation Potential
• Works Cited
• Appendix
  • Appendix A: GHG Factors for U.S. Food Production and Surplus Disposal
  • Appendix B: Water Footprint Factors for U.S. Food Production
  • Appendix C: ReFED Food Destinations in Order of Priority
  • Appendix D: Example Calculation of Status Quo GHG Footprint
  • Appendix E: Example Calculation of Status Quo Water Footprint
  • Appendix F: Job Creation Potential
  • Appendix G: Implementation Order
  • Appendix H: Solutions Modeling Assumptions
• Impact Calculator
  • Methodology
• Capital Tracker
  • Acknowledgements
  • Overview
  • Scope
  • Methodology
  • Works Cited
  • Appendix
• Acknowledgements
  • Contract Partners & Data Contributors
  • Thank You To Our Funders
• Overview of Capital Tracker
  • Capital Tracker
  • NOTICE AN ISSUE WITH THE DATA?
• Scope
  • Types of Capital
  • Thematic Funding Areas
• Methodology
  • Data Ingestion and Review Process
  • Data Sources & Limitations
• Works Cited
• Appendix
• Glossary
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  • General
    • Scope Boundary
    • Descriptions of Destinations
  • Causes
    • Buyer Rejections
    • Date Label Concerns
    • Excess
    • Food Safety
    • Mistakes & Malfunctions
    • Not Harvested
    • Other
    • Spoiled
    • Trimmings & Byproducts
  • Financing
    • General
    • Maturity Cycle
  • Food Types
  • Waste & Recycling Terminology
  • Capital Tracker Terminology
    • Classifications
    • Terms Related to the List View

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