Progress towards Sustainable Utilisation and Management of Food Wastes in the Global Economy

Table 6

Amount/percent/value of meat and poultry waste in the world food supply chains.

World zone	Loss amount	Stage of waste	Calculation method	Reference
UK	7% (meat & fish)	Household		[36]
UK	56% (meat & fish)	Processing industries	Percentage	[36, 93]
14 European	35–42%	Processing industries	Percentage of total share	[94]
China	1.4–2.1%	Postharvest handling	Average loss in China calculated from data published by several researchers	[210]
	2.5–3.7%	Storage
	1.1%	Processing
	3%	Distribution
Australia	US$ 626 (meat & fish)	Consumer	Average annual waste value per person	[19]
Africa	7%	Total supply chain	Percentage of total share	[62]
Sub-Saharan Africa	15%	Production	Percentage (by mass)	[6]
	0.7%	Postharvest handling and storage
	5%	Processing and packaging
	7%	Distribution
	2%	Consumption
North America	16%; (including fish)	Supply chain	Total weight in lb. (pound) (data collected by USDA in 1995)	[59]
USA	5%; 35%	Retail; Consumer	Estimated total value of food loss in 2008	[13]
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada	6%; (including seafood and eggs)	Household	Average of reported food wastage percentages for online survey participants	[213]

European countries: Portugal, Spain, France, Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Poland, Hungary, and Greece.