New Research: What Is The True Cost of Food Waste?

Throwing surplus and out of date food straight into the dumpster is near zero cost. For many retailers this is not acceptable or responsible way to manage food surplus. However, there are multiple costs associated with managing this surplus responsibility out of the store, either into the homes of consumers, charities, for animal feed or for conversion to energy.

This research aimed to identify those costs, and create a practical model that retailers could use in their business to guide and inform internal discussions, and decisions on the costs of prevention and new technology investments.

The full recording is available to retailers, if this is of interest, please send email to colin@ecrloss.com but in the meantime, please see below a short video recap of the meeting with Richard Thalemann, Food Waste Advisor to ECR Retail Loss.