Food Waste Indicators and Data Monitoring Concept
Description
The Sustainable Development Goals require halving food waste by 2030. The goal of this project is to develop indicators and a data monitoring concept for food waste in Switzerland. The goal is to measure food waste amounts annd environmental impacts periodically in order to evaluate if the reduction target is being achieved with the current measures for food waste prevention.
Key data
Projectlead
Deputy Projectlead
Project team
Dr. Claudia Müller, Prof. Dr. Urs Baier, Dr. Ivo Kaelin
Project partners
Waste & Resources Action Programme WRAP; Foodways Consulting GmbH
Project status
completed, 01/2020 - 11/2020
Institute/Centre
Institute of Food and Beverage Innovation (ILGI); Institute of Chemistry and Biotechnology (ICBT); Institute of Computational Life Sciences (ICLS)
Funding partner
Bundesamt für Umwelt BAFU
Project budget
72'000 CHF
School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
Einsiedlerstrasse 35
8820 Wädenswil