Prevention of food waste study in Austria
More than 100 million tons of food end up as waste annually in Europe. Food waste therefore has been identified as an ethical and also environmental problem. A new study from packaging recycling organisation ARA AG in Austria has addressed this issue from a packaging perspective.
In the Austrian study, a range of test cases was investigated where packaged and non-packaged food products were compared. One case describes cheese, where a plastic tray and cover-foil in the supermarket results in more packaging waste than unpacked cheese in the characteristic shop. However, product waste in the supermarket is only 0,14% whereas this is 5% in the unpacked case (shop).
Click here to download the ARA AG study results:
ARA AG Press Release (219 kB, in German)
ARA AG Kurzdarstellung (1 MB, in German).
ARA AG Kurzfassung (256 kB, in German).
ARA AG Infographic (206 kB, in German).
Click here for the NVC Course Food Packaging.
Click here for more information on the VMT-NVC National Conference on Quality in Packaging (June 16th, 2015).
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